3 Tips to Start Training Right  Slow Down  Maybe the simplest
strategy for staying out there the longest is to slow down. When
returning to the walk (or run, or hike) from an injury, it is so
tempting to notice how good you're feeling and then to push
harder. But, if you have an old injury, you're better off to
follow a structured plan of increasing distance and ignore the
time. Or, walk for a designated time with very gradual increases
each week and ignore the distance. Either way, you should go at
a pace that is determined by you, not by the clock.  Maybe
you're noticing that my message is to do less. It's true.  At
every single training walk, someone has mentioned that they did
too much the week before, and now they are hurting. My job as
the coach is to reassure them that while we are on a schedule,
we don't need to do more than what the schedule calls for: Some
weeks we should do less. Even if we back off slightly, we will
all comfortably finish the half marathon. If we push ourselves
every week, we won'