You just opened your plan for your upcoming training block, and, low and behold, you see a healthy mix of mileage, speed workouts, and long runs in the early weeks of your schedule. If you’ve prepared ...

Here’s why this training period is so important to race performance.

Most runners aren’t giddy about base training, a period when you gradually build your mileage with mostly easy effort workouts. “It's not glamorous and exciting,” Sean Henning, a RunDoyen coach and ...