Researching the tricky task of how to taper successfully for a marathon can leave runners with an overwhelming sense of doom. Even the most superficial web search of the term reveals a narrative so ...

Welcome to Training Diaries, a Lifehacker series about my journey to the 2023 TCS New York City Marathon. This series will cover all the ups, downs, and hill repeats on my journey to the biggest ...

This is one of a series of occasional blog entries following Kalamazoo Area Runners member Hannah Norton's training in preparation for the Illinois Marathon on May 1. Norton, 28, is a wife and mother ...

The training taper. For spring marathoners, it’s getting to be that time. Some runners cherish it, some dread it. You have spent months grinding away. Long runs, tempos, intervals and tons of mileage.

You’re just a few weeks out from game day. Here’s how to wrap up your training and taper off. By Amanda Loudin For the past 12 weeks, you’ve been logging long runs, paying attention to your nutrition, ...

You’ve been training for months, your race is only weeks away and you feel great. So you keep training hard and on race day you do reasonably well. But if you’d tapered your training you could have ...

GETTING A BIG THANK YOU. WOW, THAT IS AMAZING. AND WE’RE NOW JUST 20 DAYS AWAY FROM THE 127TH RUNNING OF THE BOSTON MARATHON. COMING UP FAST. KEVIN SKARUPA HAS BEEN TRAINING FOR THE BIG RACE, AS YOU ...

When should the taper begin? Ideally you should aim to reach your training peak three to four weeks before your target marathon. The last three weeks should gradually get lighter week by week down to ...

This is the second season of Training Diaries, a Lifehacker series about my journey to the 2024 Philadelphia Marathon. This series will cover all the ups, downs, and hill repeats leading up to race ...