Unlocking Marathon Success: Insights from Recent Research on Performance Characteristics
Today, we are going to dive into a fascinating article that’s been making the rounds regarding the performance characteristics of high-perfo...
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20 of 100 episodesUnlocking Your Running Potential: The Importance of Building Volume Wisely
We are at that time of year when a lot of you have just finished your fall marathons. You’ve crushed your goals—maybe you went from a 5-hour...
Mastering Your Training Schedule: A Guide to Effective Planning
Hey guys, it's Luke here! Welcome to Lesson Two of our planning guide. In Lesson One, we talked all about setting the right goals—which is a...
Podcast: Incremental improvements- goal vs current pace
Mastering Your Training Paces: Goal Pace vs. Current Pace Listen up, runners! Once you’ve mapped out your training plan and laid out the str...
Mastering Marathon Training: Key Principles
Summary In this conversation, Luke discusses the essential components of successful marathon training, emphasizing the importance of enduran...
The Ultimate Guide to Boston Marathon Prep
The Boston Marathon is not just a race; it's a journey that demands strategic planning and preparation. As a seasoned runner who has experie...
Podcast: Unlocking Your Marathon Potential: Strategies for Spring Success
Summary In this episode of the Luke Humphrey Running Podcast, Luke discusses the transition from fall marathon training to preparing for spr...
LHR Podcast: Approaching the Hansons Marathon Method Beginning Marathon Plan.
Transcript: Hey guys, this is Luke Humphrey. Welcome back to the Luke Humphrey running podcast. I appreciate all the great feedback from the...
LHR Podcast: Addressing Hansons Marathon Method Myths
Transcript:Hey everyone, welcome back to the LHR podcast. It's been a while. We've been revamping a lot of stuff behind the scenes on our we...
Threshold Volume
As a coach or an athlete, we look for guides as to how much work is an appropriate amount for a given athlete. I have mentioned this before,...
Boston Challenges Part 3: Race Day Weather
In the third part of this series, I want to discuss the race itself. In particular, the challenge of the potential weather. This comes in tw...
Challenges of Boston: Winter Training
In part one, we talked a little bit about timing, but more specifically how training starts at maybe the worst timing of the year- the holid...
Are your fastest races your workouts?
I read an interesting article from Steve Magness the other day, “How the need to prove yourself in practice can ruin your race day.” In the...
Cooling strategies for the marathon: Hype or Real?
We have talked a lot about adjusting workouts due to heat and humidity for quite some length, but what about strategies to cool ourselves be...
Best options for adjusting workouts to heat.
Alright, as summer gets ready to peak, some of you are questioning why you decided to train for a September or October marathon! Many of you...
Does marathon speed work need to be at my actual 5k-10k pace or the equivalent?
You might find yourself in a situation where you plug in a goal marathon time and the training paces for speed, which represent 5k to 10k ra...
Is it overtraining or is it underfueling?
As I write this, we are in the build up for the fall marathon season. For the early October races, we are into about 6 weeks. More advanced...
A fresh look at easy runs: regenerative vs moderate
It seems like all easy running is the same, and I was in the camp of indifference for a long time, I grew to realize that as we advance in a...
Becoming a better pacer
Every coach I had, from high school to professional was a stickler for pace. That’s not to say that we weren’t monitoring other variables, b...
A thought on what makes the shorter long run work
When we talk about long runs, the long run for the marathon is always the primary debate. For shorter races, even up to the half marathon, t...