Summit that peak

You will feel indestructible. Running will feel effortless. You will bound through the day with zest and energy, eat and sleep well, and feel a heightened sense of awareness, even increased libido.

Sounds like a good drug to be on, doesn’t it? But this is no drug-induced euphoria, but typically what runners will experience when they peak properly before a big race.

My runners perform well on much less training than people think they do, and the reason is simple. A runner who peaks well will usually beat a runner who hasn’t peaked well, even though they may have trained much harder. To peak well is to get the maximum benefit from all the hard training you have done.

For months you have trained hard, building up your mileage, while working on your speed and strength. in this process, and indeed, necessary. The basic principle of training is quite simple: you