And today's tailwind tip of the trail is brought to you by Greg McMillan at McMillanRunning.com.

What do you have for us, Coach?

I think it's important as a trail runner, you understand the difference between wind

to rely on pace for training and wind to rely on effort for training.

When you get on trails, particularly hilly trails or if you get altitude, you need to get

comfortable with the fact that pace shouldn't always dictate your run.

Effort should dictate your run.

And obviously, different types of terrain will create different types of effort.

You need to be okay with that because sometimes we get stuck into, I need to run this pace

for this type of run.

But when you encounter hilly terrain, rocky terrain, altitude, adverse weather conditions,

you need to learn to figure out what's the best effort for this run,

irregardless of the pace.

And once you can sort of dial in that best effort for each type of run and workout,

then it won't matter what the trail conditions are like, the weather conditions,

the wind, anything like that is okay.

You know you can always get an optimal training effect from that run and workout.

So that's important.

I believe everything should relate back to effort because we can obviously

have a lot of information about our running these days.

We can know her pace, we can know heart rate, we can know, we can have a lot of external

devices telling us about our training, but ultimately all of those focus back on your effort.

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