If you can walk a mile in 20 minutes or less, then you can very well finish a 5K in an hour just by walking. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t train for it. All you’ll need to cross the finish line ...

It’s not just you—more and more people are taking up running: Fitness-tracking app Strava saw a four percent increase in runs logged in 2023 and New York Road Runners, organizer of the New York City ...

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During my competitive running days, I had a much different relationship with pacing than I do now. Back then, pacing was always about locking into a speed and holding it until the finish, or until I ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...

The good news is that the hardest part is done. Though you might have only run 5K, in many ways you’re already over halfway there. Why? Because starting from scratch and building up to your first 5K ...