The Common Sense Coach Marathon Training: The Taper
Coach Carl explains how to optimize your last weeks before the marathon to arrive fresh, strong and fast.
Training
Come here to find everything from strength-training workouts to distance-specific exercises and how to PR on your next race. From the mile to the marathon, track workouts to long runs, core work to foot-strengthening exercises, we draw on coaches, athletes, scientists and medical professionals to answer why as well as how, and give you reasons, resources and motivation to adopt advanced training methods to race your best, stay healthy and enjoy running for life.
How to Avoid Peaking Too Soon For a Race
Avoiding premature peaking requires a strategic, patient, long-term view that builds over months and seasons.
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Healing the Invisible Wounds of War with Movement
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How Fast — and How Far — Should I Run My Long Run?
Your long run pace depends on your running goals, what systems you're trying to improve, current fitness, and what you mean by long.
Do a Telephone Pole Fartlek to Ignite Your Motor Units
Try this simple, fun, and effective structured fartlek to cultivate sprint speed and improve your 5k-marathon time.
How Mere Mortals Can Run Like Eliud Kipchoge
How lessons from the marathon legend's master class can make you a faster runner.
What Makes Norway’s Ingebrigtsen Brothers Such Exceptional Runners?
Two studies analyzed 7 years of training done by Olympic gold medalist Jakob Ingebrigtsen and his two stellar siblings. Here's what the researchers found.
How an Explorative Mindset Leads to Breakthroughs
The power of shifting from “I have to do this” to “Let’s see what I can do” in a race.
Register for Run College: 6 Weeks to a Faster You
Available free to Outside+ members, this course gives you the insider training plan to rocket your top speed and run your swiftest race at any distance.
The Common Sense Coach Marathon Training: VO2Max and Course-specific Workouts
Coach Carl explains why, how and when to do faster speed workouts during your marathon training, and how to prepare for specific course challenges.
Listen: Road vs Trail Running Training with Tim Tollefson
In Episode 16 of the Endurance Podcast, host Ian Sharman talks with elite road and trail runner — and physical therapist — Tim Tollefson about optimizing your training to be your best on the road or the trail.
8-Week Marathon Training Plan
It's not too late to start training for a fall marathon, as long as you've been doing some running this summer. Here's an 8-week plan to get you race fit in a hurry, without overdoing it.