Henrik Jacobi 
Set running goals that truly mean something to you, and you’ll transform your marathon from just a finish line into a personal triumph. This isn’t about pace charts —it’s about clarifying your vision, staying emotionally connected, and taking inspired action. Whether you’re chasing a first marathon or aiming to beat your best, this guide walks … Read more
How to make progress in running is supercompensation, which is about impacts on the body from an external load. When we achieve sports in general, we want this outer impact to make the body stronger than before we started. This process is called Supercompensation. So, how to make progress by running with Supercompensation means, we … Read more
I think recovery is particularly important for beginners to be aware of. We don’t know our body’s physiological mechanisms yet and we are very motivated at the beginning of our running career. Most of us have many and fast ambitions to get progress in our efforts with running. How to focus on recovery after running … Read more
Running economy is an expression of, how much oxygen a person consumes at a given running speed. How to improve your training by improved running economy means we aim to lower the oxygen consumption at a given speed. We could say a runner has a good running economy if he uses relatively small energy per … Read more
Long easy/moderate runs are endurance training, where you become able to run far in a long time. Finding your Lactate Threshold and practicing LT – training, you become able to run faster i.e. with a higher intensity for a long time. In other words, by performing lactate threshold training which is intensive marathon training intervals, … Read more
Running is demanding. Some Physiological functions such as the cardiovascular system, which is most important adapt very quickly to new loads by running and we experience an improvement in breathing and heart rate after 4-5 weeks of training among other things. But other physiological parts like muscles, tendons and tissues need different and longer adaptation … Read more