I’ll be honest—I had zero running-related goals when I first started the sport over a decade ago. My reasoning for joining the track team as a high school freshman was pretty simple: To stay in shape ...

Learn what happens under the hood when you’re pushing top speed, and what it takes to increase your pace for 26.2.

Perhaps, after your last marathon, you had this epiphany: “If I train a little harder, I bet I can get a proof of time that could get me into Boston!” Without the ability to run specific qualifying ...

It sounds counterintuitive, we know, but if you want to become a faster runner, you probably need to slow down your pace. And we mean really slow it down. “The easier, the better,” Nico Montañez, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When I started running more consistently a little over a year ago, I had a lot of questions. Which ...

If you’ve started running and seen early gains only to hit a frustrating plateau, you’re not alone. Many runners make solid progress at first – usually over 5k – but then struggle to get any quicker.

There’s no shortage of complicated ways to run faster over 5k. Threshold sessions, floating reps, pace bands, heart rate caps – all worth looking into, but it’s all too easy to overcomplicate things ...

Palfrey towed Birnbaum through the finish line the first time in 42.67, then through laps of 57.30 and 58.13 before drifting outside on the penultimate homestretch. Birnbaum’s lap splits from the ...