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During the last part of your half marathon training, your speed work should be focused on race pace training. During the first week of your half marathon taper, you can do one or two higher intensity workouts, keeping the volume of each workout in line with the overall reduction in mileage...
However, particularly for runners who have been healthy through the training cycle and have some experience going into a half-marathon race, as a coach, I still keep plenty of half-marathon goal pace workouts—and even some faster speed workouts—in the two-week taper. I like runners to...
Endurance, not speed, is essential to finishing a half marathon. If you are running and you find yourself slipping out of conversation pace and unable to catch your breath, stop. Walk for a moment. Regain control of your breathing and start running again, but slower. Now, if you are an ...
If I had gone out at a much slower pace, I believe that I would have gotten under 2 hours. In fact, that is what I did my next half marathon…and I have since been able to drop well over 20 minutes off my time. So, how did I do it? (and how can you?). I believe that ...
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Mixing up pace to avoid overuse of the same muscles. This was a last-minute piece of advice from a team member at lululemon. She said that she had run two half marathons and the first time she ran at the same pace the entire time and quickly fatigued her muscles. The ...
A half marathon is 21.1 kilometers long, so roughly like running a 10k race twice, with a little bit added at the end. So why do you run half marathons slower? The answer is that it’s harder to maintainrace pacewith increasingly longer distances, half marathon pace is slower than your...
How to train for half marathon? Long Run Long run can be in a slow and comfortable pace. Long runs play an important role if you are trying to run in your first marathon. You can start your long run a couple of weeks before race day. Each week, your long run will build your endur...
However, when my brother was telling me about his upcoming weekend plans to run the Toronto Half Marathon, I invited myself to join — a day and a half before the event. I’m reporting back on my experience a few hours after finishing the race, coming in at just ov...