faster – it’s that simple. A six per cent improvement in LTP – which should be fairly easy if you don’t currently focus on this kind of training – will produce a nine-minute improvement on a 3:30 marathon time.You can use two special sessions to increase
– which should be fairly easy if you don’t currently focus on this kind of training – will produce a nine-minute improvement on a 3:30 marathon time.You can use two special sessions to increase your LTP: run 10-minute intervals at your current 10K pace (do
road that slices through the village. Unlike Western runners, the Kenyans tend to train according to how they feel and not what it says on their schedule.Coach Richard Mukche (marathon PB 2:15) who works at HATC, explains that Kenyans use a training
and the course when you run a marathon,” he says. “I trained for endurance and speed. I ran seven days a week, twice a day – sometimes three times. I ran 300K a week.” Moses tells us that he feels he did everything possible in athletics: he started with cross
In New York City for the annual Runner's World Shoe Conference, Alison Hamlett enjoys some quality time with running legend Haile Gebrselassie ahead of his 'big apple' debut.Q. You're 37. Why has it taken you this long to run the NYCM?A. After I
Q. How are you feeling?A. My training's been going well, although I did get sick just before the Great North Run. I haven't had any major setbacks since then. Travelling to the NYC Marathon was uneventful compared to the journey I had getting
’s oldest, fastest and flattest marathons as well as a variety of innovative shorter races.Choose from our pick of the best Dutch races, selected by Runner’s World Netherlands’ Editor Ysbrand Visser, and your training will seem downhill from here. Egmond
Tuesday is speed work day in Kenya too. And since it’s not raining, the track at Kamariny Stadium is packed with groups running intervals, practicing drills and chatting with their coaches.Wilson Kipsang, winner of the 2012 London Marathon, isn
the first ever marathon back in 490BC but didn’t have a chance to tackle the distance again after dropping dead from exhaustion. Every November better-trained runners have the opportunity to follow in Phidippides’ footsteps with this point-to-point race from
On Sunday 3rd April, the 26th Marathon des Sables gets underway somewhere in the Sahara in southern Morocco. Around 1000 runners will be setting off t run 150 miles in six stages at what's often billed the toughest footrace on earth. I'll be one
