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Amby Burfoot

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I am the 1968 Boston Marathon winner, former executive editor of Runner's World Magazine, book author, and editor of the "Run Long, Run Healthy" newsletter.

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The Fastest Marathon In The World Isn’t The One You’d Guess

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By Amby Burfoot
| Marathon Handbook
New research on more than one million marathon performances ranks the fastest marathon courses vs slower courses. The same paper also predicts the likely arc of your personal marathon-running career. Will you get faster after you’ve run your first marathon? By how much? How does age affect your career arc? Now we have answers that previously proved elusive.
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The $5 Hack That Could Improve Your Running Economy

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By Amby Burfoot
| Marathon Handbook
Two recent studies from the University of Texas describe simple ways to improve your running economy. While the changes don’t promise huge benefits, why turn away from any efficiency gains? After all, running economy is a key to endurance running performance. A decade ago, few runners had a clear understanding of running economy. It sounded like a discount store that sold running.
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She Ran With Kipchoge Before He Was Famous. Twenty Years Later, Kenya Changed Her Life Again

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By Amby Burfoot
| Marathon Handbook
When midpack marathoner-physician Mary Austin decided to join a runners’ tour of Kenya in 2005, she couldn’t have imagined how the trip would reverberate through her life. She didn’t realize, for example, that she ran one morning with a guy named Eliud Kipchoge. Post-run, she shared steaming cups of hot tea with Kipchoge and his training mates.
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