NYC Running Coach
Central Park Coaching - NYC Running Coach is a best in class one-on-one coaching service by professional running coach, Sean Fortune. Coach Sean is a former NCAA track and cross country coach and Nike sponsored athlete for his previous club team. He is a USATF Level II certified coach and former multiple time winner of New York Road Runners' races. He conducts personalized, science-based one-on-one coached running sessions for marathoners, youth runners, and kids.
6. Depends on what you’re training for and where you’re coming from. If you’ve established running as a habit and run regularly a safe rule of thumb you can shoot for is about 20-30% of your weekly mileage. Long runs should be done only 1x a week
A: Treating the recovery portion of your training as equally important as the active portion will give you the best odds at staying injury free. Think of it as a 50:50 split. That means easy days are easy. You invest in recovery gear: ice packs, roam roller, yoga stretch strap, compression boots, massages, etc. AND you use them liberally. You follow best practices whenever possible like the 10% rule - only increasing weekly mileage by 10% each week with the fourth week being a pullback week before starting another 3 week 10% progression. Keeping track of the mileage in your running shoes and replacing every 250-350 miles. Keeping your Long Runs to 20-30% of your weekly mileage, and don’t ignore little niggles, aches, and pains - treat them immediately.
Give it time - you may find your body will adapt and become better at processing the cold air. Try slowing down the pace while you’re going through that transition. Give it a month. If it’s still giving your problems, not all is lost. Simply make sure your well hydrated all winter long and try wearing a balaclava to cover your mouth and nose, that should help. When doing that, go through periods in the run where you pull the balaclava down and practicing take in the cold air without the balaclava filter.
There's plenty of tips on what to do before and during the NYC Marathon, but you rarely hear about what do to after. Here's my advice for before, during, and AFTER, the big day, written for the Joyful Approach blog.
2 weeks to go before the big race, you can feel it in the air.
Ken is doing 100 meter sprints. The warm temperture is ideal for short, fast sprinting which develops all-out speed, strength, and form efficiency.
This is a short video of my typical warm up routine before doing full-body strength training geared specifically to make me a more balanced, efficient, and faster runner.
This is short video I made of a final tune-up workout before Nationals of two of the fastest High School runners in New York City and the country.
Summer running in New York City is great for young runners learning the importance of safely building up consistent mileage; injuring preventing stretches; and running form drills to improve efficiency and economy.
Running in NYC during the summer months usually means New York City Marathon prep training; base-training; and as always - speed and form work. With this video, we primarily used it to analysis and help correct some form concerns that Josh was having.
With the warmer temps, running fast and comfortably is the natural progression after the cold winter months. New York City running is some of the best in country.
With the appropriate apparel, running in the winter is easy and a pleasure. Don't let chilly temps keep you away, visit a proper running store to get the right gear and get out there and start enjoying the outdoors all year long.
Central Park is fertile training ground for running. Carefully measured, inspirational locations, help with the getting most of out of our workouts.
In this video, high school freshman and rising New York City miler, Ali, is working on her "top-end" running speed doing near all out 200 meter and 300 meter repetition sprints. Excellent for building speed and speed endurance which will improve her mile racing time and her fitness for lacrosse.
High School track runner doing sprints in Central Park on the east drive
Changing speeds during an interval running workout can help build race ready fitness in a manageable, less destructive way than just straight up hard, fast intervals. Lactate Threshold (high-end AEROBIC pace) 1200 meter intervals tire the legs sufficiently - mimicking racing fatigue without being abusive, followed by some shorter, faster intervals 300 meter / 200 meter / 100 meter sprints, challenging the body the same way as the end of the race.
Amy running lactate threshold pace followed by sprints
