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Run slower and get faster -- no way. Sounds like a get rich quick headline...but it's true. Running your easy days slower helps you prevent injuries and ultimately allows you to run faster and train harder.

Since I know this is a hard concept to believe, we've invited elite marathoner, Camille Herron on our show today to share her story of how she overcame multiple stress fractures (I counted 13 during our conversation) and inconsistent training to drop over 10 minutes from her marathon PR and qualify for the Olympic Trials -- all by slowing down the pace of her easy runs and changing her outlook on training.

For those who may not know Camille, she is a 2:37:14 marathoner and represented the United States at the 2011 Pan-American Games. She has a fantastic blog where she shares her insights about training and racing.

In this interview, Camille is going to share both the physiological reasons keeping your easy days easy works as well as her personal experience and what helped her "flip the switch" and realize running slower allowed her to stay healthy. Also, Camille is going to share her experience and some of her research about preventing and recovery from stress fracture injuries.

If you're struggling with injuries or find yourself hitting a plateau in training, this is a much watch interview. If you have questions, post them in the comments section and we'll try our best to answer them for you.