International Running Academy was created with its mission being: "Preserve, archive, present and educate about global distance running."  

The training method developed by my personal mentor and friend, New Zealand's legendary athletic coach, Arthur Lydiard, has been the Gold Standard of endurance training over the past half century around the world.  Physiologically correct training principles can be successfully applied to, as Arthur Lydiard himself used to say, a 4-minute-miler to a 4-hour marathon runner; a 60-year-old man to a 16-year-old girl.  All you need is to apply the Principles correctly to the individual and the situation; which we provide through various programs.

I myself have served as a professional corporate running team coach in Japan, and I have been fortunate to have known  and personally acquainted with some of the legendary athletic coaches around the globe--Bill Bowerman, Bill Squires, and Kiyoshi Nakamura and Yoshio Koide of Japan among many others.

With International Running Academy, we bring you the essence of what I have learnt from these coaches and provide their training techniques in a up-to-date and easy-to-understand format.  Running Wizard is the only legitimate on-line training program that simulates a training method developed by famed New Zealand athletic coach, Arthur Lydiard, which I had learnt directly when I worked with Arthur Lydiard.  we offer a monthly newsletter for announcement; and we will share various articles and interviews (with footnotes) and video clips, interview recordings with Arthur Lydiard himself as well as legendary Kiwi athletes fondly known as "Arthur's Boys".  -- Nobuya "Nobby" Hashizume