Don’t skip past this one just because you aren’t running 100 mile weeks! Overtraining can happen to anyone, regardless of training volume. Here are the signs, symptoms, and causes, with some fixes and preventions thrown in for good measure.

Your questions have been stacking up so we’re diving into them today! Highlights include:

The heat and humidity has arrived. How should we go about accounting for this in training?

Last week we decided that Brakken needs to suck it, sign up for a race, and start training seriously. Today, we build him a 16 week training plan designed to address all the deficiencies he’s developed over the past few years of half-assed training.

After completing just 2 races in the past year, it is time for Brakken to sign up, show up, and get back to racing!

For the past 25 years, Rich has never stopped pursuing his goal of becoming the best runner and athlete possible. Why has he now, at the age of 39, seemingly reached new heights of fitness?

The Long Run is a staple of life for many distance runners. It is also pretty demanding on the body. Here are our favorite “bang for your buck” options!

Darla returns to talk injuries, rehab, holding on to fitness through cross training, and refusing to ever give back or back down.

Can you just do classic track workouts on the trails? Sure. But sometimes you need something specifically designed for your off road racing needs!

On Tuesday we covered the workouts that give you solid fitness benefits with very little recovery costs. Today we are taking the opposite stance: workouts that are crazy costly but have the potential for big improvements to your fitness and/or confidence!