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It’s the age-old debate in running, and I’m not sure that I’m going to give you a definitive answer today. But I will give you plenty to consider when you’re trying to figure out Should I run for time or should I run for distance?

I would encourage athletes on every level to reconsider what the win is, and to find other wins and we do it in education too. Did I get the A? No. Did you learn something? Probably, you know. I just failed at this relationship, right? Like it ended.

I don’t do this often on this channel and that’s to give you one little trick in a video. So, today’s video is going to be short, but I’m going to give you my number one running hack to run faster, even when you’re feeling fatigued.

I don’t think we talked about running form enough. If you’re a swimmer or triathlete, you probably think about technique a lot because it’s so crucial in the pool to have good technique. If you have bad technique, you can muster all the strength you can and you’re going ...

You know, I let go of running fast a long time ago. My relationship with running now is fantastic. I look at it in a lot of different aspects. I mean for some days it’s therapy and some days it’s just like — some days it’s a grind because I might not feel that great.

Here you are, hopefully, practicing what I preach and planning out your run schedule. So, you get the most of your training, but you’re trying to figure out what’s the best time of day to actually go run.

If you joined me for the first video, I went over five running form habits that you should break. Now today, I want to talk about three other bad habits that runners do that we definitely need to get out of the habit of.

Yeah. And you know what? Your best efforts on an easy run doesn’t mean you’re running your fastest. It means you are trying really hard to run easy. And when we grew up without GPS watches, I remember as a track and cross country athlete in high school, the instructions ...

Something that you really shouldn’t be asking me, you’re here, you clicked on this video, maybe you searched for it. Can you run with a stress fracture? Now I know you’re dedicated if you’re asking this question.

I’ve said it before on this channel, I’ll say it again, if you run for any length of time, you’re gonna get injured. But, if you’ve been injured there are definitely things you don’t want to hear.