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Spring every year brings some of the biggest marathons in the UK including Boston (Lincolnshire), Manchester, Edinburgh and of course, the London Marathon, with the Paris marathon being another popular one around the same time. What if you want to…
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Long runs are an inevitable part of marathon training, and even plans that have “shorter” long runs still include them. But that raises the question, how far should your longest run be before your marathon? 20 miles or 3…
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I’ve written previously about how to include some harder effort sessions in marathon training, and touched on why it can be useful. In this blog, we’ll look a little deeper into the reasons. The usual marathon approach We can’t…
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As runners we all know the importance of pacing races well, especially longer races which when paced incorrectly, leave us struggling for a lot longer. Does it really matter for interval running sessions though? Aren’t intervals just about hard…
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