Confessions of an Endurance Trainee: Four Ways to Finishing

Washington Post writer Howard Schneider offers up his own five-month long experience, training for a half marathon that was run in May. For the record, Schneider, who worked with a training group called TNT, came in at a satisfactory  2:05:48, just shy of the two-hour goal he was shooting for.
Schneider says training rested on four pillars: weekly long runs (he did it); cross training/overtraining (he did it, somewhat); speed/tempo/goal setting/ (he rocked it); and hill training (he blew it).
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