I have gotten quite a few questions about racing well in the mud (10-12km) vs. a faster cross country surface. The first thing to understand is that the two most important things to racing well in cross country are the connection to strength endurance and power endurance related to your aerobic support (normally 4mmol threshold) [...]

The following is adapted from the book, “Run Faster From the 5k to the Marathon : How to be your own best coach”. Authored by Brad Hudson. After a bad race or two, or a spell of sub-par training, it’s common to think, “I don’t feel fit.” Unfortunately, it’s also common to resolve to ramp [...]

Every runner I coach does regular sessions of short hill sprints. Should you? Well, these brief, maximal-intensity effort against gravity offer two key benefits …

An excerpt from Run Faster: From 5K to the Marathon  Every elite coach has a training philosophy. Mine is called adaptive running. It is based on my belief that a responsive, evolving, creative approach to training is better than an approach that is too structured and formulaic. Simply put, there is no single training formula [...]

On Sunday, August 23, many of the world’s greatest female distance runners will convene on the streets of Berlin for the 2009 IAAF World Championship Marathon. Among the talented field will stand Tera Moody of Colorado Springs. The former Colorado Buffalo and Marathon Performance athlete will look to reap the rewards of an incredible 1-1/2 years [...]