Coach Tips: Prioritizing Effort Over Pace | Team RunRun | Scott Fauble

Training by pace works great... until real life shows up. In this video, Team RunRun Coach Scott Fauble breaks down one of the most common mistakes endurance athletes make: treating pace as the goal instead of effort. Your body doesn’t understand “6:00 pace.” It understands stress, heart rate, lactate, heat, fatigue, muscle recruitment, and recovery demand. Scott explains why the same workout can produce completely different physiological stress depending on weather, terrain, altitude, sleep, and overall readiness and why runners who cling too tightly to pace often sabotage the exact adaptations they’re trying to build. Coach Scott walks through how to adjust workouts in hot weather, on hilly routes, at altitude, or on off days without losing training value. You’ll also learn why finishing workouts completely destroyed is often a sign you got the session wrong, how effort-based training creates more consistency, and why marathoners should be chasing efficiency, not trying to train like sports cars. If you’ve ever felt frustrated because your watch says you’re “off pace,” this video will help you rethink how to train smarter and race better. ⸻ Relevant Links Get Coached by Scott Fauble on Team RunRun ➡️ https://teamrunrun.com/coach/scott-fa... ⸻ Follow Team RunRun    / @teamrunrun     / teamrunrunllc     / teamrunrun   Website: https://www.teamrunrun.com Follow Coach Scott Fauble https://www.x.com/scottfaubs   / sfaubs   Website: https://scottfauble.com/ #runningcoach #marathontraining #runningtips #endurancetraining #marathon