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 [...]