Each week, coach and author, Hal Higdon answers your questions about running. Here's the latest:
Friday, May 4, 2012 at 2:12PM 
This Quick Guide will help you set your training zones using heart rate, power, and pace. You will learn how to get the intensity of your workouts dialed in for your heart rate monitor, power meter, and runner’s speed and distance device such as a GPS or accelerometer. Swimming pace is also described here.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 8:00AM 
Jeff Vicario of TrainingBible Coaching explains how you can use Chronic Training Load in the Performance Management Chart to make sure you're building fitness at the right rate up until your "A" race.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 11:54AM 
It's important to take a break during the off-season and give yourself the mental and physical rest you need to recharge for the new racing year. However, you also need to maintain your fitness base so you can hit the ground running come spring. So how do you know how much you need to train during the winter to maintain your fitness? Kyle Wolfe, multisport coach of Finish Fast Cycling, shares his strategy.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 10:13AM 
Many successful endurance athletes are type-A personalities. They are driven to succeed. While this is necessary to some extent, too much drive and motivation can lead to disastrous training and poor performance. Here's how you can monitor your fitness/fatigue and avoid overtraining.
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 11:34AM Having the ability to analyze training files (be it HR, Power, Pace, etc…) is invaluable to quantifying progress over time.
Heart rate monitors (and more recently, GPS devices) along with Power Meters have widely been accepted as must have tools for runners and cyclists during training to capture and quantify critical information for a given workout. Coaches and athletes alike can analyze their HR, pace and power outputs as the workout happened and be able to correlate it back to the qualitative feedback (aka: how they felt) their body was telling them for that session.
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