Marathon Tips: Running Injuries, Anxiety, and More  Attack of
the Nagging Fears  What are you afraid of? Injury? Blisters? The
wall? Whatever it is, there's a way to fight back when running
anxiety strikes  Failing to Hit Speedwork Goals  The Fix: Tweak
target times or distances  “Missing goal times is usually the
result of a bad day or overly ambitious goals," says Luke
Humphrey, a 2:14 marathoner who's head coach of Hanson's
Coaching Services in suburban Detroit.  "You can't do much about
bad days, and it's okay to completely miss once in a while. But
there are a couple of ways to adjust targets if they're too
ambitious."  Runners need to slowly increase the intensity over
the weeks until they hit their faster goal race time. For
runners who lack the confidence to hit a certain pace, Humphrey
suggests at first reducing the repeat distance‐by starting with
400-meter repeats at goal pace, say, instead of 800s—to remove
the intimidation factor. "It's better to make mistakes in
training and learn from them," he