by Webmaster | Jun 11, 2025 | Marathon
The first practice race scheduled in the BC Endurance marathon training is the Windward 25K (15.5 miles). It comes a mere seven weeks into the training when our longest workout will have been only 2.5 hours long. So, many of our athletes wonder how they can finish 15...
by Webmaster | Jun 10, 2025 | Marathon
Everything we do in life is preceded by a private, mental conversation. In the weeks before a marathon, for example, your thoughts could represent competing ways of pacing the race, e.g., start fast or slow. Your thinking always decides the issue. You could be...
by Webmaster | Jun 9, 2025 | Marathon
One of my associates from the early 1980s, Alan Titchenal, was an experienced and wily marathoner. On the occasional days when the Honolulu Marathon was run in particularly hot and humid conditions, Alan would start the race at a deliberately slow pace, letting most...
by Webmaster | Jun 8, 2025 | Marathon
The following guidelines assume you are preparing for an early-morning race in hot-weather Hawaii. Storing Glycogen Energy (carbohydrate loading). Glycogen, a form of muscle sugar which derives from carbohydrate (starchy foods) is the limiting factor in long-distance...
by Webmaster | Jun 7, 2025 | Marathon
Pacing is the most important skill in the sport of long-distance racing. Go too fast at any point in a race and you increase your risk of a fatigue-induced, crashing slow-down before the finish. Go too slow and you risk the equally ignominious embarrassment of a...
