Hours Trumps Miles and Meyer Lemon Baked Fries

When I worked with a trainer in 2010 to run my first marathon, it was made clear that most of my runs would be based on hours:minutes not miles.  I didn’t get this.  Ever since I had started running it was always how many miles were run that day, that week, that month.  It wasn’t hours!  In addition to a history of running based on miles not hours, my thought was “if I have to run 26.2 miles, I want to come pretty close to that amount in training.”   My trainer understood but made clear the reasoning behind the hours [...]