Christof Schwiening's random thoughts and writings

Open Letter to Haruki Murakami Dear Haruki, Yesterday a colleague, who has an office opposite mine in the Department of Physiology, Devel...

January 2016 posts related to marathon training Meeting the load What is a training load? Predicting marathon performance from trainin...

Runners often worry that they are wasting their time and effort doing slower additional miles - distance that is referred to as junk miles...

Before I show what actually happens if one trains in the lands where 'dragons may lie' (long distance slow running), I thought it ...

The marathon prediction equation produced by Tanda (2011) did not look at the performance of any sub-elite runners, his fastest was 2:47. ...

Giovanni Tanda (2011) looked at the marathon performance of 22 runners who had run a total of 46 marathons (over a 5 year period) at near f...

Those who train for a marathon following a pre-prepared plan, of which there are many available, should have a reasonable expectation of ac...