Your Endurance Lifestyle. Redesigned.

The challenge of improving run speed falls primarily to two main physical derivatives: your cadence and the length of your stride. And, either increasing your cadence or increasing the length of your stride — both of those will, or a combination of the two — will lead to an improved overall run speed. But becoming a better runner is more than just improving the speed at which you run.

A recent post by triathlon coach Joe Friel has kindled a great conversation about the nature of running economy and how it relates to training inside the Endurance Nation forums. I think Joe’s article captures one of the biggest misconceptions around training in the running space…and it has to be stopped!

I am not a fan of mediocre goals (I think they lead you to underachieve) and I personally don’t mind missing what I set out to achieve. Getting to where you actually planned to be isn’t as exciting as ending up somewhere else you didn’t expect — sometimes different is better than, well, better.