Here are the Running Times picks fo the distance events at this weekend's ...
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In 2009, I raced the USA Marathon Trail Championships. It was my fifth marathon and I achieved my goal of becoming national masters champion. While accomplishing this goal was valuable, I may have learned a more valuable lesson that all runners can apply to their marathon racing. Unli...
Your strategies for taking in calories and fluid on race day can have a strong influence on your marathon performance. Let's look at how to optimize your fuel intake. If you've done a good job of glycogen-loading during the several days before the race and topped off before the start,...
The mad dash begins the second Dathan Ritzenhein finishes jogging his 29th 500m loop around the perimeter of the grass athletic fields at Portland Community College (PCC) on a Thursday morning in May. He jumps into his shiny red BMW and speeds through the sleepy neighborhood of Beaver...
Marathon preparation occurs over several months. During that time, you meticulously plan and diligently train so that you're in peak condition for the race. To do your best, however, you also need to have a plan for the marathon itself. How much should you warm up and what should that...
All injuries are a pain in the butt, but this one is quite literally. You feel pain or recurring discomfort in your gluteals (buttocks) and hip regions, which can be irregular and sharp or a constant dull aching. The pain can remain localized in the hip or can radiate down the leg or ...
Most marathoners-in-training start their program with a time goal in mind, often an ambitious one that inspires and motivates them. At some point in training, however, smart marathoners need to adjust their goals to their fitness: The marathon is run on finely tuned physiological syst...
Sure, we often run by ourselves, and more often than not we enjoy the solitude. But we've yet to meet a long time runner who didn't have at least one running buddy in his or her history--someone who understood our passion and shared the battle and beauty of the road with us. We asked ...
It fascinates me that nonrunners so often seem to think that running long distances must be intolerably boring. "What do you think about when you're running?" they ask. That question has occasionally been explained as a fundamental difference between what experienced runners do when r...
