To become a faster runner, there’s really only two things you have to account for: the length of your stride and your turnover, or “stride rate”. Speed comes naturally when you combine these two factors, but the difficult part is finding the perfect combination of the two that’s economical.

Rhythmic breathing is a common technique that not many runners talk about, but one that can have a direct impact in performance and economy.

Group runs have a way of affecting the way we pace ourselves. We often only push ourselves up to a certain point when we run alone, only to find in a group dynamic that we can usually do better.