In this episode, Nicole Winter (@nicolemruns) asks me questions from her followers about final race week preparations. We discuss everything from choosing a race pace to race week eating to the taper

One of the biggest mistakes I see made in training is a lack of variation within a training cycle and certainly across training cycles. If you want to reach your goals, you need to make sure that you

In this episode, I talk about the age-old question for marathoners and half marathoners - should I carbo load before my big race? My answer might surprise you and is likely different than the prevaili

Training mileage is a topic which encompasses the majority of questions I receive on a weekly basis. In particular, runners want to know how to build mileage, how to do it safely, and how much to do i

In this episode, I am joined by fellow running podcasters - Angie and Trevor from the . We give quick intros on us and then get to questions from each of our audiences. We got great questions from you

Last week, Kara shared a that inspired me. It read: "One of life’s biggest lessons- you don’t always get what you want. You can do everything right, and still fall short. But usually, even in the pai

First-time marathoners have a very special place in my heart as a coach. It is powerful and very inspiring to watch someone cover 26.2 miles for the first time. In this episode, I give 12 tips to help

Managing running injuries is hard for so many reasons. One reason is that the prevailing wisdom on these injuries is generally just wrong, making it very hard to know the right things to do. In this e

On this show, I talk a lot about the mechanics of training and the X's and O's of each period in training. In many ways, that's the easy part. It's the what-to-do in training part including the workou

In this episode, I give you a mini-smorgasbord of topics from recent questions I've received from athletes.  First of all, I talk about the practical elements of training in the heat including how to