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the morning shakeout

If you’re training for longer races like half-marathons or marathons, it behooves you to do regular work at or around threshold intensity, w...

Nick B

I first read about this workout, made popular by former Boston winner and marathon world champion Rob De Castella of Australia, in Michael S...

I first wrote about this hill workout several years ago for Competitor (now Outside Run). Inspired by Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus, th...

Workout of the Week: The Sisyphus Session

The “fourth dimension” of marathon performance, along with VO2 Max, Running Economy, and Lactate Threshold, is Fatigue Resistance, says Jack...

Workout of the Week: NAZ Elite Fatigue Resistance Session

One of my favorite all-purpose workouts to assign my athletes, whether they’re burning rubber on the track, shredding grass on the cross-cou...

I love ladder sessions. It’s a great feeling mentally when you start coming back down the ladder and know the longest intervals are behind y...

Not only does this workout share its name with one of my favorite covers of all-time, it also happens to be one of my favorite sessions to a...

I came up with this workout for the Wednesday night track crew I coach as a fun way to get in a high volume of quality work while also pract...

Tempo run or short hill repeats for your next workout? Trick question. The answer is both! I like to combine different training elements fro...

Workout of the Week: Pardon the Uphill Interruption

Most interval sessions are pretty straightforward in their construction: X number of [fill in the blank] intervals @ Y pace with Z recovery ...

If you look at the training schedules of top runners throughout recent history it’s more likely than not that you’ll find regular bouts of t...

The long run, for me, is a fickle beast, with the emphasis changing from week to week depending on what we’re trying to get out of it. It do...

Workout of the Week: The Alternating Miles Long Run

I’ve always believed that to run your best half-marathon you should be in really good 10K shape—and if you’re in ripping 10K shape, you shou...

As an athlete, the Mona Fartlek is one of my favorite workouts to do; as a coach, it’s one that I’ll often assign a few times throughout a t...

Let me know if this situation sounds familiar: You’re in no-man’s land midway through a half-marathon or marathon. Or maybe you’ve been towi...

Workout of the Week: Surging Mile Repeats

Marathon season will soon be upon us and improving your ability to run for longer at goal race effort/pace is probably top of mind. The “2 B...

Workout of the Week: The “2 By” Marathon Long Run

I love short hill repeats, full stop. Whether you’re training for a mile, an ultramarathon, or anything in between, regular bouts of 30-60 s...

No matter what you’re training for, there’s a place in your program for a threshold run. This workout, for simplicity’s sake, can be boiled ...

Workout of the Week: DIY Threshold Session

I first learned about this session in coach Brad Hudson’s Little Black Book (Redux). He calls it an “introduction to power endurance” workou...

Workout of the Week: Brad Hudson’s “Intro to Power Endurance”

This workout was introduced to me by coach Kevin Curtin when I was running for New Balance Boston—now Battle Road Track Club—about 17 years ...