Run Blog: From 5K to Marathon Training and Preparation
The Run Blog is a training and preparation resource for runners from 5K to Marathon. It brings together practical workouts, training guidance, race preparation, recovery and mindset support in one place. The focus is on helping runners train with purpose, build consistency and understand how sessions fit together over time, supporting sustainable progress across every stage of the running journey.
Why Do Running Zones Matter for Marathon Training?
Understand why running zones matter for marathon training and how different intensities can help you prepare for the demands of prolonged running and fatigue.
Where Do Running Zones Fit Into Half Marathon Training?
Learn how running zones fit into half marathon training and how different intensities can help prepare you for the sustained demands of running 13.1 miles.
How Should You Use Running Zones for 10K Training?
Understand how training zones fit into 10K preparation, what each intensity can contribute and how intensity and duration shape different training sessions.
How Do Running Zones Work During Your 5K Training?
Learn how running training zones work during 5K training, what Zones 1–5 mean and how different intensities can support your preparation and performance.
How Can Better Sleep Improve Your Running Performance?
Discover how sleep affects your running performance and why familiar paces can feel harder after poor sleep, with practical guidance for your training week.
Which Recovery Tools Actually Help You After Running?
Explore how recovery tools may help after running, with clear explanations of their benefits and limits to help you decide what fits into your routine.
How Does Nutrition Support Your Recovery After Running?
Understand how nutrition supports your recovery after running, with clear explanations of nutrient roles and why fuelling across your training week matters.
How Does Sleep Support Your Recovery After Running?
Understand how sleep supports recovery after running and what happens while you rest, with practical guidance to help you make room for sleep around training.
How to Plan a Recovery Week in Your Running Training
Learn how to plan a recovery week around your running, with a practical training example showing how to reduce the workload and decide what comes next in your plan.
Active vs Passive Recovery and What They Mean for Runners
Compare active and passive recovery in running, with clear explanations of recovery runs and rest days to help you understand where each fits in your training.
Running Recovery and Its Role in Developing Your Fitness
Explore how recovery helps your body adapt to running and where it fits in a training plan, with explanations of recovery options and changes in fatigue.
What Is the Purpose of a Recovery Run in Your Training?
Understand the purpose of recovery runs in your training and how they differ from ordinary easy runs, with an example week showing where they might fit.
Overtraining in Running: When the Body Stops Adapting
Overtraining reflects a prolonged loss of adaptation rather than simple fatigue. This piece explores how it develops, how it differs from overreaching and why recovery matters.
Navigating Fatigue: Overreaching Vs Overtraining in Running
Fatigue in running exists on a spectrum. This piece explores acute fatigue, functional and non-functional overreaching and how these states differ from true overtraining.
Why Include a Recovery Week in Your Running Training?
Explore why recovery weeks belong in running training and how a lighter workload can help accumulated fatigue ease before the next stage of your training.
Zone 5 Running Explained and the Role of VO2 Training
Learn how Zone 5 running and VO2 training challenge your aerobic capacity, how your body responds and how this intensity can support running performance.
Zone 4 Running Explained and the Role of Threshold Running
Learn how Zone 4 running develops your ability to sustain harder aerobic efforts and discover the role of threshold running within endurance training.
Zone 3 Running Explained and the Role of Tempo Running
Learn how Zone 3 running develops your ability to sustain stronger aerobic efforts and discover where tempo running can fit within your wider training.
Zone 2 Running Explained and the Role of Endurance Running
Learn how Zone 2 running develops your aerobic base and supports endurance, while providing a manageable intensity for building more running into your training.
Zone 1 Running Explained and the Role of Recovery Running
Learn how Zone 1 running works and how very easy running can support recovery while contributing to your wider training and overall endurance development.