True success is not just how fast you run but is made up of many layers that require focus and contribute to improvement. Through hard work, experience, and consistency, we become better runners in many ways.

If you want to run a marathon successfully without getting injured, spend four days a week doing short runs, one day a week running long and hard, and two days a week not running at all. Now, that seems like a pretty smart schedule to me if you want to do anything challenging and sustain it over a long period of time. A few moderate days, one hard