On Rehabilitating Serious Injury

On Rehabilitating Serious Injury

Are you injured? Here’s how to deal with doctors who recommend surgery and pain killers, and therapists with their strengthening and stretching regimens. Forget their “remedies;” they don’t address the underlying problem, which is always a combination of over-training...
Find Your Slow Training Pace

Find Your Slow Training Pace

Successful marathoning requires that you master slow-paced training. Whether your goal is to finish and enjoy a marathon or compete and perform in it, you must pace yourself, so you establish an injury-free regime that builds racing ability. Running at a slow, light...
How Tempo Intervals Build Racing Ability

How Tempo Intervals Build Racing Ability

The purpose of tempo interval training is to build your ability to run comfortably at your current race pace for the first half of your goal-race distance. In other words, you’ll always have a particular goal race distance for every interval workout. And the pace...
The Visualization Run

The Visualization Run

One of our staple BC Endurance workouts is the visualization run. In part, its purpose is to see the layout of a racecourse: its hills, turns, and quirks so there are no surprises on race day. Even if you’ve run the race many times, the visualization process is...
Comfortable Tempo Training for Racers

Comfortable Tempo Training for Racers

The mind and what’s going on within it largely determines a workout experience. That’s why you should be aware of your thinking as you begin a tempo interval workout. Tempo intervals should be run at the pace of the race you’re preparing for. But there is a more...