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The FIRST Three Day A Week Marathon Schedule
By Amby Burfoot on 05/12/2006 15:06:54
Tired of slogging through miles of training? Here's how to run your best marathon on three training runs a week
minutes on two other days. WEEK TUESDAY SPEED THURSDAY TEMPO SATURDAY LONG 1 8 x 400m 3 miles 10 miles 2 4 x 1200m 5 miles 12 miles 3 6 x 800m 7 miles 13 miles 4 3 x 1600m 3
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Enduring Questions: How Lactate Makes A Run Better
By Amby Burfoot on 07/10/2005 09:38:03
It makes your legs burn and can ruin a run, but lactic acid is just misunderstood
was already a marathon runner, and most of my runs were long and slow. My cross-country conqueror took a different tack. He focused on hard 1,200m intervals, subjecting his muscles to the kind of stress he’d face in competition. At times he also ran 400m
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It's Good To Walk
By Amby Burfoot on 05/05/2002 15:49:01
A simple training technique can increase your endurance and calorie-burning, decrease injuries and maybe even help you to run faster
. Then do the one-minute walk. Repeat this eight times, and you’ve come reasonably close to the 8 x 400m interval torture that my college coach loved to inflict on us.On the topic of intervalsExercise physiologist Jack Daniels recently had two groups
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How To Run At Your Ideal Paces
By Amby Burfoot on 01/11/2002 15:55:38
Running fast too slowly and running slowly too fast - it's easy for runners to misjudge their training pace. But with the right guidance, everyone can train more effectively
-6 x 800m, or 8-12 x 400m at your VO2max pace. Take a two- to three-minute jog recovery between each repetition.The idea behind this kind of interval training is that you can safely go up to or beyond your maximum capacity of 11 minutes of VO2max
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Enduring Questions: Can Hills Make You Faster?
By Amby Burfoot on 07/07/2005 10:23:42
Some runners avoid hills because they can cause injuries and they're, well, hard. Time to reconsider
a 1:48 and regularly hit 1:50. At the bottom of the hill, do several sprint repetitions, varying between 50m and 400m. Says Lydiard: "These sprint repetitions begin the development of your capacity to exercise anaerobically." After six weeks of hill
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Double Your Endurance
By Amby Burfoot on 10/05/2005 16:02:25
Introducing the wonders of the running world - seven simple plans to double your endurance
temperatures that dropped to well below zero, and last spring added speedwork to his routine. By May, he was running long runs of two hours 40 minutes, doing six 400m repetitions in 1:45, and had set his sights on a first marathon.A programme can’t get any
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