Research Reveals How the Fastest Runners at the Boston Marathon Train

What “big data” can tell us about how to have success at 26.2.

Becoming a better runner doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s a simple formula: run more, run fast (sometimes), and allow enough time to recover so that your body adapts to and absorbs the training stress.

Most of us have intuitively honed our training strategies over the years to find the blend of miles, runs per week, and other “extracurricular” activi…