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 ...

Base training is an essential piece of marathon preparation. It’s when runners establish a consistent routine and build the aerobic fitness foundation that they’ll rely on later. Because the miles are ...

Find a training plan for an upcoming race and you’re likely looking at a schedule of several weekly runs for eight to 16 weeks (or more). So building up consistent mileage before you jump into week ...

Theoretically, base training should be pretty painless. The whole idea is to take it easy as you rack up slow-and-steady mileage. The hard stuff, like tempo runs and threshold intervals, comes later.