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The One Weird Trait That Separates Faster Marathoners from Slower Ones

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Training intensity distribution is a fancy term for how much of your training time you spend going easy, medium, or hard.

Sub-2:30 runners ran 67 miles per week, about three times as much as those running slower than 4:30 and 60 percent more than even the sub-3:00 runners.

By far the best predictor of marathon time was how many miles a runner racked up.

A new study by Muniz-Pumares found that faster runners did more easy running than slower runners.

But the data doesn’t support the idea of avoiding the medium zone, which is too slow to give you the benefits of interval training but too hard to recover from if you’re running big miles.