Is the marathon an ambitious first running goal? Sure. But we get why a beginner may want to skip some of the traditional running milestones—the casual 5K you run for fun; the 10K you do to see if you ...
“Resilience is not measured by how quickly I recover, but by my willingness to keep showing up.” ...
You may think that walking during a race leads to slower times. And that’s okay, because it’s an easy misconception to put stock into. Runner’s World contributor Liv Paxton also believed in that ...
When a new runner tells Gemma Ward, New York Road Runners’ training and products lead, they want to train for a marathon, she doesn’t balk or try to convince them to start with a shorter distance. “We ...
If you have mastered the 5k and 10k distances – and enjoyed the process of doing so – your natural next step might be tackling the half marathon (exciting!). However, while the distance (21.1k) is ...