As your key race approaches it’s tempting to run too fast or too far during the final few workouts. You need to decide how to adjust your training over the final two weeks before your race. This will depend on how much you have been training and the intensity of your workouts. You can use […]

The primary Forerunners training schedule asks for three primary runs per week; long run, tempo workout and speedwork. The schedule is designed to prepare you for races by gradually improving your fitness with a low risk of injury. You can accelerate your improvement in fitness by adding more runs per week or by adding extra […]

Happy New Year! 2020 was an unusual year and a year of patience as COVID turned everything upside down. Adjusting training plans and fitness maintenance were the goals of the year. In early 2020 most of us had expected to be racing in November and December 2020. 2021 looks like a better year as vaccines […]

You have been working out this fall and into the winter building your aerobic base and speed. As you continue to train for the First Half Virtual in February you may want to know what are the changes to your fitness. There are a few ways to gauge how your fitness is improving: Time trial […]

Q: I find it too difficult to run the pace pick-ups during my long run. I am targeting 5min/km because that’s the pace I would need for a 3:30 marathon, but I don’t even think I could manage a half at that pace right now. How can I run the 2km pace pick-ups at marathon pace? […]

As a runner, the main reason to cross train is to improve your fitnesswithout the injury risk of increasing weekly running mileage. Ourtraining program includes running three times per week but you maywant to train a little more. You can use the traditional forms ofcross training to add aerobic fitness which include: swimming,cycling, elliptical workouts, […]

Tempo runs are fast pace efforts that are brisker than long run pace, but not so fast that you are too tired for your next run. The objective is to twofold: 1) raise your anaerobic threshold so you can race faster; and, 2) help you sharpen up for races by running at near race pace […]

Our training program includes three key workouts per week speed, tempo and long run. This week’s newsletter looks at the benefits of a long run in preparing for the First Half. The long easy run is simply that, a run at an easy pace which is slower than your marathon race pace. Anything slower than […]

The Forerunners Vancouver Virtual Running Clinic for Winter/Spring 2021 training schedule is designed for the Virtual First Half Marathon Feb 7, 2021 and Spring Half and Full Marathons. RUNNING CLINIC INFORMATION AND TRAINING VIRTUAL  HALF AND FULL CLINIC A) The Three Goals of the Clinic: 1) Get to the start line – be ready to race without […]