gradually over a period of months.How fast?You want to run a marathon in 3:30, which is eight minute/mile pace, so you do your long runs at that pace. Sounds like a good strategy, right?Wrong. Its a logical argument that you should do your long runs
that is, run the second half marginally faster than the first. This is also the strategy you should aim for in the marathon, and it is the way our Team in Training pacers will be approaching the Flora London Marathon. The rationale in training is that
to hydration in your training to establish a strategy that works for you and remember: you're an experiment of one.Exactly how much is enough?So how do you know if you're hydrated before you start a run? The easiest, most practical test is to check the colour
our goals. Read on and you’ll find seven endurance-boosting strategies that have worked for a range of runners. Not all will work for you. But one or more will, and that should be enough to significantly increase your endurance, which means you’ll run
and water for the rest of the bike and continued this on the run. It felt like a drug, after the first hit I was hooked. Coke was nowhere in my original nutrition strategy but now I couldn’t function without it.Coming down the final straightI was slowing
, such as self-confidence, and pinpoint the techniques or strategies that'll help you improve in those areas. For instance, 'choking' happens either because you’ve placed huge importance on a particular race, or you fear failure. "Take emotion out of the equation
RW profile Goal: 3:45 Finish Time: Didn't run for health reasons Dan's Training Schedule | Dan's Food Diary Analysis | Dan's Training Thread | Dan's Race-Week Nutrition Strategy Flora London Marathon: Race DayDan says: Deciding
. • My RW profile Goal: sub-4:00 Current PB: 4:14:27 Rob's Training Schedule | Rob's Food Diary Analysis | Rob's Training Thread | Rob's Race-Week Nutrition Strategy Weeks 13 - 14Rob says: I started this fortnight with a dodgy ankle
| Helen's Food Diary Analysis | Helen's Training Thread | Helen's Race-Week Nutrition Strategy Flora London Marathon: Race DayHelen says: I've knocked 22 minutes off my marathon PB today, yippee!I really struggled with the heat today, much more than I
at the end. You need to get up to race pace earlier on and stay there. The key thing is to get your warm-up strategy right and include some faster 200m sections where you take longer strides to drive your heart rate higher. Practise your warm-up routine
