Guess who’s running a marathon?

I swore this would never happen (again)

Every winter during our offseason, my coach (Avery Collins) emphasizes speed workouts with a mix of long tempos and shorter threshold work. What most people call marathon training, only without the big volume.

Focusing on speed is great fun because when it all goes well and you don’t get injured, you can watch your pace drop while your fitness increases. It’s an intoxicating combination to say the least. 

And so it is that every winter I begin thinking about running a marathon. As longtime readers know, I swore off road running in general and marathoning in particular following a brutal experience at the Boston Marathon in 2017. Never again! 

Howevah … things have changed.