🔗 How to turn the worst running economy ever measured into sub-3-hour marathon performance in only 14 years

This blog started as a bit of a joke, but hopefully, there's something useful in here for other endurance athletes.

Let's start with a bit of background.

When I was in high school, our physical education teacher would corner me and ask how much I'd been smoking, given my complete lack of endurance.

I never smoked, but that's how good I was as a runner, despite being active and doing sports since a very early age.

Many years later I fell in love with running. I left my country in 2009 when I was 25 and started pouring myself into work, finding in running a much-needed break for my mental health, more than > anything else. It wasn't love at first sight, but I slowly started to enjoy it more and more.

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