GET FASTER with EASY RUNS: 5 Ways to Master the Easy Pace

Did you know you'll get faster if you do more easy running? But, are you slowing down enough to get to your easy pace? Most runners are sabotaging their potential by going too fast. Find out 5 ways to find your easy pace in training so you can run a faster race.

[peterwhite]

I’m 75. I run three days a week at an easy pace but for an hour. Training for a five k. I will follow your great advice. Thank you for this information. Lots of opinions out there but at my age I have to follow what I think my body can handle. Running should be fun

[bigadventuresonaveragetale]

Making easy runs easy is definitely one of the hardest things to learn! Thank you for this

[edwin]

4:15 I doubt there will ever be a time when I'm comfortable saying "yesterday I went to brunch with my friends", no matter the pace 😅

[etut]

Thanks so much for this video!
I just discovered your channel, and I'm on week 7 of 20 for training for my 1st marathon -
My long, easy, and pace runs have all been hovering within a minute of the same avg pace. Very tough in the July summer heat 🥵
My goal for my remaining weeks is to maintain a slower pace for my easy and long runs until race day!
Looking forward to watching more of your vids! Cheers!

[richardhislop-harvestthena]

Excellent advice thank you for the great video! I'm over coming IT Band Syndrom now and just getting back to running slowly with a couch to 5k plan and doing walk run walk run for 20-30 min. But so important that right now my focus is great form and very easy milage to build up my aerobic base again and go easy on my muscles while they start to get used to the milage again as I overcome these IT issues that have stopped me from running in the past. Thanks for the great video and tips, spot on! My bucket list dream goal for my running has always been to over come this and some day qualify for Boston Marathon! Thanks! Subscribed!

[wvu]

In my personal experience, taking walk breaks throws my rhythm off, so I go into a stricter version of Slow Jogging based on the work by the late Hirokai Tanaka, an exercise physiologist at Fukuoka University who ran a 2:38 marathon at age 50, and just take really, really short steps until Polar stops its infernal beeping. Strangely enough, the jukebox in my head goes to "If I Only Had a Brain" or "If I Only Had a Heart" to get me into a calmer state ;-)

[chriswrobel]

Best advice I've read or watched regarding long runs. I'm actually looking forward to my long run tomorrow morning and feel much better prepared.

[kevinerskine]

Love your videos. Thanks. Inspiring me to try another marathon.

[srikanthvishnubhotla]

Wow! Just this video improved my run. You have me as a subscriber!! Thanks.

[sarahwilliams]

Loving your videos Jane. Found them whilst looking for a review for the Garmin Fenix 6 pro. Really helpful info and will be watching more. Will also definitely be trying to run some more easy pace and bring in strength work as I try to strengthen my right knee 😳

[Lumpydog]

I'm on the comeback trail. I have been hiking and run/walking trail ultramarathons for the past few years. I signed up for a fall road marathon this year. I'm currently on week 16 of base training. I had to start over as a new, 54 year old, runner. Specific marathon training starts in June. My goal is to finish the marathon without walking. My finish time goal will be established in June. Your videos are very informative and motivating. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

[sambsialia]

Very very helpful content. Thanks so much.

[jeffkoll]

Great video! I stumbled onto Maffetone training a few years ago and it revitalized my running and actually kept me going. I was almost ready to quit before I learned to train truly at easy paces.

I have noticed that the difference between my speed paces and easy paces is pretty extreme, more like 3 to 4 minutes per mile slower. I also learned that the reason most wrist heart rate monitors don’t work well is because people wear them incorrectly. If you make sure the device is at least two fingers up from your wrist, they are actually very accurate.

[tonydarsaklis]

great video, so true with easy running now for 80% of runs a week. Speed sessions now also a lot quicker because of it.

[arianegrace]

Okay wow! This is just what I needed! I have been running for a few months now but I noticed that my endurance wasn’t improving! I think it’s bc I don’t do easy runs. I always run hard even though I really am struggling!! Jane!!!

[hxrry]

great video. just finally getting the easy running strategy after wasting so much time running too hard. Still do 1-2 speed seshs a week and can now do those quicker also.

[wild_running]

Like this advice on identifying easy pace running. Breathing through the nose is a tip I haven't yet checked out. I should get a better understanding of my max heart rate as the basic calculation tells me it's at 106 but I can hold a conversation at 120-125.
I'll watch some more of your videos 👌

[chasingcultures]

Hi Jane, I really love your videos! I am going to be training to run a fast marathon, and I start this week. I am going out on a run now and it is an easy 7 miles. I am going to try these tips and really slow it down! We usually do ultra marathons, and training for just a marathon is so different - and honestly a lot harder! Ultras are almost all long and super slow miles, where as I always thought marathons were fast mileage all the time. So glad I found your channel!!

[jenniferring]

Just finished running Chicago, worst finish time of the four full marathons I've run so far. Looking back at my training I was running four days/week - Easy, speed, long run then easy run. There was often pace work in the easy run. Pretty much ALL of my runs were time based. With my pace being at the slower end I didn't really make it to 30 miles most weeks, usually in the 27-28 mile range. So slow pacing by time didn't get me very far ultimately. I'm attempting another full in February and asked my coach to add one more day so I'm running 5 days a week - and more mileage based runs vs. time. That previous schedule I feel didn't give me enough mileage and I'm not really a math person but that also looks like it broke out to only 50% of my run week being easy. But the other thing I've noticed about easy running (and I know I'm still not running slow enough so I'll work on that too) is that's the pace that ultimately feels super good. It's hard to not feel like I"m running too fast running faster on race day. How do you flip that switch mentally and physically?

[LucasRuns]

Thank you for the educational video Jane! This video certainly defied what I believed was right - I just did my first marathon finishing at 3:50:47, and I have been training, gasping for air, and reaching exhaustion every single time around 7:30 mile pace for 5-7 miles runs.

Do you ever run fast in your training? If so, what's the percentage of those runs vs. easy runs? I constantly feel the need to push my body to a considerable amount of stress for my leg muscles to grow. Please let me know! :)