Sublime

books like Running Wild: An Extraordinary Adventure of the Human Spirit, by John Annerino; Running and Being: The Total Experience, by George Sheehan; and The Marathon

Bear in mind that the Hansons Marathon Method is tailored to help you reach specific goals, not just to run 26.2 miles.

But your main concern should be tracking your own baseline over time, and making sound training and lifestyle decisions based on daily values that depart from baseline.

Thanks to the pioneering work of Stephen Seiler, Jonathan Esteve-Lanao, and others, we know the best method is aiming to do 80 percent of our training at low intensity and devoting a fair portion of the remaining 20 percent to high-intensity efforts.

I can, when necessary, break mileage up throughout the day or use an easy run to tack on additional mileage. After a hard race or tempo run, I might go out later that evening for a 5- to 6-mile easy run.