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. Our Essential Marathon NewsletterOur free, weekly marathon email is designed to keep you on top of your training. Short enough to be readable, long enough to be useful, it contains at-a-glance schedules for every pace, themes and hurdles for the week

can follow a conventional marathon training schedule, trying to run 60-80 miles a week. This should be preceded by an autumn programme of 50-60 miles a week, taking in some half-marathons and maybe a marathon. Because your goal is an ultra

Whether you call it tempo running or anaerobic, lactate or ventilatory threshold training doesn’t matter. Threshold training works, and adding it to your schedule is sure to make you faster and more efficient in endurance races.Threshold training

Q I know that long runs should be run slower than race pace, but can you explain why. I want to race at eight minute/mile pace at next year’s Flora London Marathon, so surely I should train at that pace? Also, if I run a half-marathon in January

University in New York.Since his book Daniels’ Running Formula was published in 1998, many high school and college coaches have adopted the Daniels approach. I believe the general upswing in American distance running success over the last decade is partly a

before. It’s a long-time favourite of snake-oil coaches with credentials from Charlatan University. Of course, real runners know that to become faster you have to log more miles and run intervals until your rear end is dragging on the track behind you

that’s intervals, hill repetitions, tempo running, or some other high-intensity session.)Unlike a lot of runners, I don’t schedule this run beforehand. Instead, I see how the working week pans out, I monitor the weather and how I’m feeling, then I

or waste miles?Schedules - How can I fit running and other sports into a 7-day week?Twice-daily training - should I consider it?Visualisation - transformed my runningWarming up and stretching - do I really need to?Long runsAre long runs ruining my training

Q I’ve completed a couple of 10Ks and half-marathons, but worry that I only seem to have one pace. I want to run faster so I’ve tried adding tempo runs to my schedule. But when I make a conscious effort to speed up during a run, I soon find I have