We say this a lot but we will say it again?

EASY is EASY! 🏃🏾 🏃🏼‍♀️

🤓 You find and train different gears in your speeds ➡️ you develop better range ➡️ you improve your ability to make your harder work truly hard & effective!

This process allows you to • reduce risk of injury • gain better fitness • keep you on track with your goals. 👏🏼

Does this sound familiar? ⬇️

😠 This is so slow I feel like I’m not doing anything.

😡 I just needed to blow off some steam.

🙄 I can’t post my easy days on social media.

😖 Going this easy is boring!

🤨 I don’t understand how going slower makes me faster.

🥺 But I’m a time starved athlete?!

😩 Everyone else is going so much faster!

😬 Sorry, I ran with friends.

🤪 But I felt good!

👉🏻 Think of the easy days as the glue that holds your fitness together. When you go easy you....

✅ You increase blood flow to muscles to improve the ability to utilize oxygen.

✅ You slow it down enough to focus on the finer details of movement & improve economy (free speed!).

✅ You develop pace/effort range, the ability to tap into different gears versus being stuck in the same stale pace

✅ You strengthen tendons, ligaments, and muscles to better handle higher workloads

✅ You buy into the big picture of your training plan, allowing each session to serve a purpose that leads you closer to your goals - being healthy, fit & fast on RACE day!

Rather than dreading, overworking or fretting about your easy days, see them as some of the most useful workouts in your plan! 🙌🏼

It’s easy! 😎

📝: @liz.waterstraat

📸: consider taking some of your easy run onto a smooth, flatter trail like coach @sarahbjarvis here 🌱