I've been training for my next marathon with low heart rate training, using the Maffatone approach of running 100% of my miles at a heart rate of 145bpm or less. Does this approach work? Does it even make sense? What about speed work? Do we care if there aren't any elites out there that use this method?

In today's video, I run my first MAF test (with some peculiar results) and discuss what I think of maffetone so far, what I'm going to be doing between now and Houston (in just 6 weeks), and what I expect to see on race day.

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