Endure Prime Running

This episode continues The 5 Pillars of Better Running with pillar three: HARD TRAINING.We look at VO₂max, threshold, running economy, interval structure, recovery and load management, and why different hard sessions create different adaptations.For masters runners, the focus is not on avoiding intensity, but on using it well enough that the body can absorb it.The goal is not maximum fatigue. It is the right training stimulus, placed in the right context. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode continues the series The 5 Pillars of Better Running with pillar two: easy running.Easy running can look almost too simple to matter. The pace is controlled, the heart rate stays lower, and compared with a hard interval session, the immediate fitness stimulus can seem modest.But that is only part of the picture.Easy running allows us to accumulate more training without making every additional kilometre equally costly. Over time, that extra volume contributes to aerobic development, including adaptations in the mitochondria inside the muscle and the capillary network that helps deliver oxygen where it is needed.The episode also looks at why easy running can support better quality on hard days, why it can help runners gradually tolerate more training, and why injury prevention is better understood as managing load and recovery rather than assuming that slow running is automatically safe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yomif Kejelcha has spent more than a decade among the world’s best distance runners, from 3,000 and 5,000 metres on the track to the 10,000, half marathon and marathon.In this episode, Bjørn-Ivar reflects on Kejelcha’s journey through extraordinary performances, championship near-misses and a gradual move towards longer distances, culminating in his 56:51 half marathon world record in Buenos Aires.It raises an interesting question for the rest of us: how certain should we really be about the kind of runner we are? The distance that suited us five or ten years ago may not be where we find our best running today.A conversation about persistence without stubbornness, staying curious, trying different distances and allowing our running to develop over the long term. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode begins a new series: The 5 Pillars of Better Running.The first pillar is consistency.Not perfect training weeks. Not completing every planned session. And not trying to make up every workout that gets missed.Instead, this episode looks at consistency as the ability to keep returning to running over time.A missed interval session, a shorter run, tired legs, or an unexpected change in everyday life can easily make a training week feel as if it has gone wrong. But long-term progress is built over months and years, not around one perfect Tuesday.The episode explores why trying to catch up can sometimes disturb recovery, why protecting what comes next can reduce unnecessary injury risk, and why adjusting a session does not automatically mean the training has failed.Consistency is less about never being interrupted and more about maintaining a relationship with running that can continue through different seasons of life.The first pillar is therefore simple: keep returning, allow training to adapt when needed, and give progress enough time to develop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to return to running after the summer without rushing, losing confidence or increasing your injury risk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.