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Week 4 already, how’s it going for you? Are you still training and if so what’s working for you?
This week, something different, plenty of slower, recovery running.
That’s because we are going to be running a little faster than usual.
Most of our running training is aimed at improving our cardiovascular fitness; developing the ability of our heart, blood vessels, and lungs to
Here is the third of the weekly training sessions for runners who want to maintain some structure to their running training during the period of restricted movement and social distancing.
For more details of the sessions see the introduction and Week 1.
This is a threshold session. The threshold being the intensity at which acidosis builds in the muscles at a higher rate than the body can clear
Here is the second of the weekly training sessions for runners who want to maintain some structure to their running training during the period of restricted movement and social distancing.
For more details of the sessions see the introduction and Week 1.
Warm up with 5-10 minutes of gentle jogging.
There are 2 paces or effort intensities for this session:
1 set is:
Run 4-5 sets depending on your
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If you are feeling like me you might have noticed a drop in motivation to train. I, like many, was booked into a spring marathon and when that was cancelled the initial frustration soon turned to apathy. Why train when there’s nothing obvious to train for? We don’t know
Paul Tergat is undisputedly one of the most accomplished distance runners of all time. For five years during the latter part of the 1990s he was undefeated in the World Cross Country Championships. He set world records at 10,000m, half marathon and marathon. He is renowned for his dedication and his motivation.
One of Paul Tergat’s 10k training sessions (reportedly used before breaking
Peter Snell had a rather brief athletic career. A surprise 800m Gold in the 1960 Rome Olympics, world records for 800m, 880yds and 1 mile in 1962. Olympic Golds for 800m and 1500m in 1964.
In 1965 he retired from competition and began his career in sports physiology.
His finishing speed was astonishing. We tend to think of finishing speed being developed solely by speed training. But, according to
