This episode continues the series The 5 Pillars of Better Running with pillar two: easy running.
Easy running can look almost too simple to matter. The pace is controlled, the heart rate stays lower, and compared with a hard interval session, the immediate fitness stimulus can seem modest.
But that is only part of the picture.
Easy running allows us to accumulate more training without making every additional kilometre equally costly. Over time, that extra volume contributes to aerobic development, including adaptations in the mitochondria inside the muscle and the capillary network that helps deliver oxygen where it is needed.
The episode also looks at why easy running can support better quality on hard days, why it can help runners gradually tolerate more training, and why injury prevention is better understood as managing load and recovery rather than assuming that slow running is automatically safe.
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