2.  Timothy P. Higgins contributes to a number of
nonprofit organizations and charitable
initiatives including The Wounded Warrior
Project, St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital,
Team for Kids, and The Coalition for the
Homeless. In addition to supporting
philanthropic organizations, Timothy Higgins is
an avid marathon runner and enjoys anything
fitness related. He has found a way, through
distance running to take his two greatest
passions, helping others and fitness, and
combine the two so that he can help those less
fortunate, while pushing his fitness to the outer
limits.

3.  There are eight "generally utilized" pace runs
marathoners incorporate into their training regimens.
Runners at any level should make use of each of
these basic runs in order to diversify their workouts
while preventing injury and overtraining. The recovery
run, while generally a shorter run, is taken at a slower
than usual pace in order to add mileage without
"over doing it" after a period of more intense runs. A
base run is also relatively short, though a bit longer
than a recovery run, and involves one's "usual"
running pace. While base runs, though not extremely
challenging, make up the majority of a training
regimen and allow marathon runners to establish a
given "pace" while keeping up a certain level of
fitness.

4.  Long runs, on the other hand, require
runners to distances not normally done
during the course of everyday running.
These distances are usually between 13 and
21 miles. Long runs leave runners fairly
fatigued and are often more than double
the length of a base run. The remaining five
types of runs—fartleks, progression runs, hill
repeats, tempo runs, and intervals—are
composed of combinations, such as five
miles at a marathon pace, followed by
several miles at an easy pace.