Jonas Colting

He started researching how to improve endurance without overtraining and found a formula that worked: moving around a lot at a low level of activity, lifting heavy things only once in a while, and sprinting once a week. The key to endurance training, he says, is low-level training combined with occasional all-out, really hard training. That was how

These BTBs, as we call them, are as much about time on the feet and time being out there as they are about mileage. You will learn what it takes to muster mental as well as physical energy when you think you have none left. You will also experience the caloric demands of hours of exercise and figure out how to eat and drink on the run when that mig

So when I go out on a training run, I often remind myself, out loud and with a laugh, “I’m way ahead of race pace for Western States right now!

what if the starting point of building a lifelong happy runner is contemplation of the fragility of the human body and the finish line that awaits everyone, long before you’re forced to by injury or decline? What if affirmation of life comes most honestly from contemplation of death?

“Human life can be considered one big wave with its climbing, peaking, and declining phase,” writes Polish immigrant coach Thomas Kurz, MS, the author of highly recommended The Science of Sports Training (stadion.com). “Several smaller waves are superimposed on our life wave. Some last years, some days, some hours, and some even less than a second.

And as Coach Jack Daniels says, training should strive for the least amount of stress possible to achieve a given adaptation.