Posts by Greg McMillan

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I met Selwyn while working on my graduate degree in Exercise Physiology. We ran for the same running group and as he approached the Masters division (runners 40 years of age and older), he asked me to help him with his training. You probably know a runner like Selwyn. He didn’t run in high school….

You don’t have to be a runner for long before you begin to hear about something called “base training.” Experienced runners and coaches tell you that you need to build your “aerobic base.” But just what is this thing called a “base”? History Lesson In the 1930s, 40s and 50s, the dominant training philosophy was repetition…