Most runners have heard of base training but I’m not sure if most really know what it means. I didn’t until now. For the last two years, since I started running marathons, I’ve spent a good part of the year – September through April – training for one marathon or another. During the four months I wasn’t training I, rested running casually three to four times a week with no plan or a schedule. I knew that after a short resting period it was time to build a base, but I didn’t really know what that meant....
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