Ready to step up your running game? Take these tips, tricks and tools into use and start smashing your running goals.
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Calculate your pace or finish time for any distance: 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon. Calculate for miles or kilometers. Enter any two values to calculate the third: time, distance or pace.
Your heart rate when running will fluctuate from day to day due to external factors. Learn more about what factors affect your running heart rate.
Looking for a reason to go running? Get into the mood with these 21 reasons, pictures and motivational quotes from runners and pro athletes.
Try these 5 essential, but simple, stretches before running to mobilize your muscles. Get ready for a run.
Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, setting the right goals can have a major impact on your performance. Multiple-time Ironman champion and professional coach, Lisa Bentley offers her best tips for goal-setting. Read her advice on setting and meeting realistic running goals.
Elite cross-country skier Kikkan Randall advocates letting your body be your guide during pregnancy. Read her advice on running while pregnant.
Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day for runners. Try this breakfast recipe and kick start your day the right way.
Runners who incorporate strength training into their regime tend to be stronger and consistently get quicker and be more successful. Don’t skip these five essential exercises for runners.
A runner’s lunch should include carbohydrates, good quality protein and fats as well as plenty of micronutrients. Triathlete and Master of Human Nutrition Kaisa Lehtonen shares her recipe for success. Try this lunch recipe and get ready to own your workout.
A runner’s dinner should be well-balanced and nutrient-rich. Here’s a recipe to try from triathlete and nutrition expert Kaisa Sali.
Skipping, tripling, lunges… Running drills will help you improve your running technique. We put together a list of 5 different running drills and some awesome animated gifs to show you how to do them.
These 5 running heart rate zones indicate how hard you are working. Calculate your zones and train in all zones to improve your running faster.
Here’s how to get started with the Polar Running Program – it’s personal, it’s adaptive and it’s free!
