Over the past year, three of the leading male contenders in today’s US Olympic Trials Marathon held in Houston Texas have had an unusual amount of scrutiny of their running form. Meb, Ritz and Hall, for various reasons, captured the attention of professional journalists and bloggers alike as everyone queued up to have their say. As the running technique debate rages on I wonder who will come out on top when the rubber hits the road?
Knowing when to back off the gas and take a down week in running is a critical to your long term success and longevity as a runner. Keep forging ahead through tired and tight muscles and you are mixing up an unhappy recipe for disaster. Find out why down weeks should be in every training program.
Ryan Hall has demonstrated an impressive capacity to forge his own path in a sport often shackled by iron-clad training dogma. Hall’s book Running with Joy provides a good opportunity to examine the genesis of his recent approach and success at the 2011 Boston and Chicago Marathons.
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