Running Advice and News

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Welcome to Running Advice and News — your source for timely information about marathon running, triathlon and ultra-running. Running Advice and News publishes articles nearly every day in our two main areas: training advice and news.

Our training advice articles offer insight from professional running coaches Joe English and Dean Hebert. We answer your questions and offer guidance into improving your performance, whether it be your first marathon or your 100th triathlon.

Our news articles keep you up to date on the most important races in the sports of marathon running, triathlon and track and field. From major marathons like Boston and New York to the Ironman World Championships and the Olympics, we get the stories for you.

Coach Joe English started Running Advice and News as a weekly update to his athletes in Portland, Oregon. Originally called Running Wild with Coach Joe, the blog took off and has rapidly expanded in scope. Since the publication of the first articles in 2006, more than 800 articles have been published on Running Advice and News and the site has been visited by more than 475,000 runners around the world.

About our Running Advisors
Coach Joe English, Managing Editor and Comments Editor

Coach Joe English is a professional marathon and triathlon coach in Portland, Oregon. He has worked with more than a thousand athletes in their pursuit of endurance sports goals through his American Endurance Sports coaching business. He is a Head Coach of the Virtual Team in Training Program, serving marathon runners and walkers around the country through on-line coaching. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Portland Triathlon Club and advises club members as their resident running coach.

Joe is an expert marathon runner and triathlete and also runs ultra-marathons. He completed his first marathon twenty years ago — at age 17 — at the Portland Marathon in 1988. He has since completed more than 50 marathons; as well as cycling centuries, triathlons, duathlons, ultra-running events and an Ironman triathlon. After taking a break from racing for the past two years, Coach Joe is back and is having a great season in 2009 with 5 overall victories and 6 age group victories so far.

Joe has been trained extensively as a coach. He has received certifications from RxRunning, Team in Training (Running, Cycling, Triathlon), and USA Triathlon. Specialty areas that he works into his curriculum include a strong emphasis on nutrition, hydration and pacing techniques.

Coach Dean Hebert, Contributing Editor

Coach Dean Hebert is Head Coach of the Tempe, Arizona-based RXRunning & Racing Team, a high-performance running coaching company and team. He is an expert at performance improvement for runners of all distances and also works extensively with youth runners. Coach Dean’s training articles appear regularly on Running Advice and News.

Coach Dean has set numerous course, track and stadium records en route to more than 100 career victories in track, cross-country and road races over 35 years of racing. He has achieved Masters All-American status. Under Coach Dean’s direction, the RxRunning & Racing Team members and RxRunning clients have set numerous personal records, regularly place high in all age groups and win or place in road race relays.

Coach Dean coaches runners, triathletes and duathletes from novice to age-group to elite levels. He has also had success in training individuals in special conditioning efforts (FBI, CIA, police academies) as well as sport specific training (soccer, baseball).

More about Running Advice and News
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