Run Your Fastest Mile! Training Program
Want to Become a Faster Runner?
The self-guided Run Your Fastest Mile training program is no longer available for purchase.
Speed development can still be an important part of becoming a better distance runner. Improving your running economy, strength, speed, and confidence at faster paces can ultimately help you race faster from the mile through the marathon.
If you want personalized training built around your individual goals and abilities, learn more about working with Coach Chris through 1:1 coaching.
How to Become a Faster Runner
One of the biggest lessons I can teach you is to simply, “never stop working on your speed.”
As you go about your running journey, you can only choose one thing at a time to focus on.
You can improve your speed or you can improve your endurance, but you can’t focus on both at the same time.
When you train for a half-marathon or marathon, you are primarily focusing on improving your endurance.
This is because these events primarily challenge your endurance and not your speed.
In fact, your speed stays relatively stagnant while marathon and half-marathon training.
But when you get faster over shorter distances like the 1-mile run, it becomes much easier to then cover longer distances at a quicker pace.
If you can run a faster all-out mile, then your next half-marathon or marathon will certainly be much faster too.
That’s why it’s essential for marathon and half-marathon runners to dedicate periods of time each year to getting faster.
Unfortunately most marathoners and half-marathoners have never really taken any time to focus on getting faster over shorter distances.
Instead, they keep training for marathon after marathon, never really challenge themselves to run faster over shorter distances, and ultimately see little improvement in their speed from race to race.
But the awesome thing is, because most marathon runners’ speed is so under-developed they can achieve huge improvements in speed and lower their 1-Mile PR significantly in as little as five weeks time.
In fact, the vast majority of athletes who follow my training set a new PR in the mile simply because they have never really focused on such a short distance before.
Confidently Chase After Your Dreams
My training programs have helped hundreds of athletes confidently chase after their dreams.
Here are just some of the reviews and success stories from my happy athletes:
Build Your Speed Into a Complete Training Plan
The best training program isn’t built around one workout or one pace. It brings together speed, endurance, recovery, strength, and race-specific training in a way that fits the individual runner.