Age is Relative & How Making Small Changes With Your Running Add Up To BIG Results!

Joining In Flight has been a great experience for me. I’ve met a lot of great people to train with for Saturday long runs and weekly track workouts. In Flight has put me on an entirely new trajectory with my running.

I started running marathons about 17 years ago. My personal record (PR) was in my third marathon and since then I have run about twenty more. I would try and try to get back to that same level over the years but just could never get there. I turned 50 a couple of years ago and was starting to have doubts that I could ever do it. Last year I decided to try something new and joined In Flight. Having run for so many years, I had a lot of habits and practices that I needed to discard and just give Michael’s program a shot.

In Flight provided a detailed schedule tailored to my specific goals for my scheduled race (Houston Marathon). I spent a lot of time with Michael in person and in his webinars, and also did a lactate threshold treadmill test, to learn how to set my pace and have a purpose for each and every daily training run. I participated in the weekly track workouts, where the coaching staff helped me with my running form. As a result, in January I set a new PR in the Houston Marathon at age 51.

For this season, I’ve been working in the track program again and just reached a 5K PR, so am hopeful for more and more PRs down the road.

– Robert Thompson