📌 KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Keep two hard aerobic workouts per week (long runs, fartleks, progression runs, aerobic repeats) during indoor season for as long as possible — April and May PRs are built on winter aerobic work.
• Do chassis strengthening (post-run strength and mobility work) 5–6 days per week, 15–25 minutes per session — this work is “must-do,” not “nice-to-do.”
• Chase speed from day one using the Progression of Strides — start at 5k pace and ...

Here’s a phrase I love to use with athletes: 

If you want to do things you’ve never done before, you’ve got to do things you’ve never done before. 

You asked your kids to do things like a new warm-up or new post-run work to run PRs in May.  

Now that it’s May you are going to ask them to do things they’ve never done before: 

• Go out at a faster pace 
• Sit back longer and trust they can make a hard move earlier in the race 

• Run a differe...