You’ve trained for weeks or months. You’ve completed your long runs, practised your race pace, worked on your fuelling and arrived at the start line ready to run 21.1km. But there’s one final piece of preparation before the gun goes: Your warm-up. For runners wanting to race their half marathon, I don’t believe the first…
The first few kilometres of a half marathon usually aren’t the problem. You’re fresh. Your legs feel good. Your breathing is controlled. If you’ve paced things sensibly, you might even wonder whether you’re running too slowly. But a half marathon isn’t decided by how good your legs feel at kilometre three. The real test comes…
You have done the long runs. You have completed the tempo sessions, built your endurance and accumulated weeks or months of consistent training. Now, with your half marathon getting close, it can be tempting to think there is still time to squeeze in one more big session. There isn’t. One of the most important parts…