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Fall marathon training starts now.

Whether your goal is to finish your first marathon, qualify for Boston, run a personal best, or simply train more consistently, having the right guidance can make a major difference in both your performance and your experience throughout the build.

At Hardloop Endurance, our coaches work with athletes of all abilities to create individualized training built around your goals, current fitness, schedule, and life demands. Training is adjusted based on how you actually respond — not from a generic template.

From long run progression and workout structure to pacing, fueling, recovery, and race execution, we focus on helping athletes train smarter, stay healthy, and reach their potential over the long term.

Major fall marathons are approaching quickly, and the best time to start building is now. There is no magic “12 week plan”, we work with our athletes year-round, the longer time we have together the better.

More information on private coaching is available via link in bio.

#MarathonTraining #RunningCoach #Training by @hardlooprun
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5 months ago
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🏃‍♀️ The HARRA Fall Series is coming to Houston Party in the Park! 🏃‍♂️

Organized by Houston’s local running clubs, these races are the perfect tune-ups for the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon.

Stop by the race tents to meet the organizers, learn more, and sign up!

📍 Meet the Races and Clubs

🌲 Road Kill 5K XC — Hardloop
🚀 Space City 10-Miler — BARC
🏙️ UTHealth Houston Half Marathon — Houston Striders
⭐ Houston 25K — HMSA
🏁 Coach Andy Stewart’s 30K & 10K — Houston Harriers

🏆 Want to compete in the HARRA Fall Series?

Become a HARRA member to earn points and compete for:

• Club Competition
• Team Competition
• Ironfoot recognition
• Runner of the Season awards

Join or renew your HARRA membership at linktr.ee/harraruns.

📅 Saturday, August 8
⏰ 7:00–10:00 AM
📍 Memorial Park, west of the Tennis Center

Come meet the clubs, discover your next race, and get ready for fall racing season!

⚡ RSVP through the link in our bio or at linktr.ee/harraruns.

#EmpoweringEveryoneToRun #HARRARuns #HARRA #HoustonPartyInThePark #HARRAFallSeries HoustonRunning MarathonTraining by @hardlooprun
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2 months ago
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What can today’s endurance athletes learn from world records, classic training methods, and modern performance trends?

In the latest Hardloop Endurance newsletter, we break down Episode 3 of the podcast: Lydiard vs. the Norwegian Method, why racing must count toward your total training load, adapting workouts to your environment, sodium balance, and why elite-level fueling strategies aren’t automatically right for every athlete.

There’s no single perfect training system—the key is understanding the purpose, then applying what fits the individual athlete.

Read the newsletter and listen to Episode 3: Spotify | YouTube | Apple

#HardloopEndurance #EnduranceTraining #RunningCoach by @hardlooprun
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🎙️ Episode 2 of the Hardloop Endurance Podcast is live!

This week, Coaches Kirk Elias and Cal Neff discuss why recovery may be the missing piece in your training, lessons from The Norwegian Method, proper pacing, race tactics from the Prefontaine Classic, bicarbonate supplementation, and the story behind the name Hardloop.

Plus, we share practical coaching tips you can apply to your very next training week.

📖 Read the latest newsletter: https://wix.to/EbvL55l

Links in bio.

#HardloopEndurance #RunningPodcast #MarathonTraining by @hardlooprun
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The Hardloop Endurance Podcast 🎙️ 

We're excited to launch something we've talked about for years...

The Hardloop Endurance Podcast is officially live!

Join coaches Kirk Elias and Cal Neff as we sit down to talk running, coaching, racing, and life. In Episode 1, we discuss how The Norwegian Method is reshaping our thinking around threshold training and recovery, share our takeaways from Western States 100, follow the latest Diamond League action, and dive into the conversations that happen between coaching sessions.

If you're passionate about becoming a smarter runner, we'd love for you to give it a listen—and if you enjoy it, please subscribe and share it with a friend. Available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Subscribers, check your email for the latest Hardloop newsletter with links.

#Coaching #Endurance #MarathonTraining by @hardlooprun
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The Marathon Project Weekend!

Give it up for our athletes wrapping up a busy year of marathons for the Hardloop team. DFW runners Brent and Samantha are getting the elite treatment, complete with bottle service at, @marathonproj Gold Wave Saturday and Coach Cal @theneffpace lines up for the pro race on Sunday!

Good luck and thanks to everyone who’s trained with us this year. Reminder we have a free and open workout on Tuesday next week, Coach Cal will lead a session in preparation for the Houston Marathon and Half. See Strava Club for details. 

#MarathonProject #Marathon #MarathonTraining taken in Chandler, Arizona by @hardlooprun
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Welcome to the Hardloop Endurance coaching team, Coach Kirk Elias!

Bringing over 50 years of coaching experience, we are honored to have the most passionate, enthusiastic, and charismatic @coachkirkelias join the team. Technical knowledge and practical experience combined to bring the individualized training approach all levels of athlete deserve. Coach E is available now to coach you to your next personal best. 

📧 coach@hardloop.run for information

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a year ago
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Track Tuesday Tonight & Fall Marathon Training - The Hardloop Newsletter just hit subscribers' inboxes (subscribe on the webstie), info included:

We are on the track at Memorial Park tonight with Coach Cal Neff learning the dynamic warmup drill routine & option for form evaluation, warmup starts at 6:30 PM.

See the list of our current athletes Fall marathon plans, you might want to join them and the training starts now. 

Designate Hardloop Endurance when you renew your Houston Area Road Runners Association membership and score some points for the team in the Spring/Fall series. 

#MarathonTraining #TrackTuesday #RunHouston by @hardlooprun
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Hardloop Houston 🖤

A record amount of incredible performances from all of the Hardloop athletes this past weekend in Houston (and one in Louisiana). Huge congrats to each and every one of you who trained and raced with Hardloop! It was PR and BQ city!!! Hopefully we were able to include everyone here as we continue post race reviews and planning out training for the remainder of 2025. 

The next few big events on our athlete schedules include Austin, Woodlands, Cowtown, Boston, Grandma’s Marathons and many more events.

#MarathonTraining @chevronhoustonmarathon #RunHOU #runcoach #PR #BQ #bostonqualifier #runhouston taken in Houston, Texas by @hardlooprun
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Best of luck to the over 50 Hardlooper’s at the @chevronhoustonmarathon and half tomorrow!!!

The coaching team is proud of all the hard work put in and excited to see it pay off 👊 

#HoustonMarathon #RunHOU #Hardloop #MarathonTraining taken in Houston, Texas by @hardlooprun
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She’s back 👸 @sarahrabourn defends Coach Cal’s 50k title at the @rundallastx Marathon weekend taking the overall win in 3h29m!

In the half marathon @lightfoot.hayden ran a PR in 75 minutes as part of the @chevronhoustonmarathon training buildup.

Another great weekend for Hardloop Athletes!

#DallasMarathon #UltraMarathon #MarathonTraining #FastWomen taken in Dallas, Texas by @hardlooprun
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2 years ago
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Hardloop Weekend Results Wrap-up (Dec 7-9)

From 3k to 100 Mile, Overall Win, Podiums, Personal Bests, Boston Qualifiers, Western States Qualifier, Berlin Acceptance, Western States Acceptance and everyone in between, it’s a been a weekend full of success for the Hardloop Athletes. Congrats!!!

Anna Gevirtz, Rehoboth Seashore Marathon 2:50, 1st Place (5th Overall)

Samantha Feldman CIM, 2h59m, 3rd AG PR BQ

Buck Baker, Brazos Bend 100 Miler 15h57m, 3rd, PR, 2026 Western States Qualifier (and lottery winner for 2025)

Oliver Miller AAU XC Nationals 3k 10m33s 9th

Colin Brown 5k 18m27s

Mark Coalmer, CIM 2h55m BQ

Brian Haskett CIM, 2h51m BQ

Brent Williams CIM, 2h35m PR BQ

Michelle Sutherland CIM, 3h44m PR

Henry Leu 30k 1h56m

Lindsey Norris, St Jude Half 1h36m 2nd AG

Geoff McBride, Brazos Bend Marathon 5h8m

Brandon Stratton, Brazos Bend Half Marathon 1h41m 1st

Jenn Antonik, San Antonio Half, 1h34m

Meredith Jones, Sugarland 10k 51m59s

#MedalMonday #MarathonTraining 

Let us know if we missed anime and great job everyone! by @hardlooprun
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2 years ago
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