« Two weeks to goDuring the last week of your taper, things can get ugly. Two weeks ago, you ran 20 miles in a single run, but now you shouldn’t even be totalling that distance in the whole week before the race. And as your mileage plummets, your
inspired the trend in 1954 with epic sessions like 10 x 200 metres followed by 50 x 400 metres – a combined 13.67 miles of speedwork. Ambitious runners the world over have aspired to that imposing standard ever since, in a quest for that elusive PB
bad day or overly ambitious targets," says Luke Humphrey, head coach of Hansons' Coaching Services and a rather speedy 2:14 marathoner himself. "You can't do much about bad days, and it's OK to completely miss once in a while. But there are a couple
