-racing distances: the half-marathon, the 10K, and the 5K. You can squeeze this workout into 30 minutes, and at the same time train for three real-life road-racing distances.Jog two minutes.Run one mile at your half-marathon pace. Walk or jog two minutes.Run one

the key running muscles, joints and ligaments. Your easy pace is equivalent to your 5K race pace, plus 90 to 120 seconds per mile. (If you race 5Ks at eight-minute-mile pace, your EZ pace is 9:30 to 10:00-minute miles.)Run a weekly long run that amounts

considerably more lactate. When you train at LT pace, your body conditions itself to move lactate around, and this should improve your performances at distances from the mile to the marathon.So what’s your LT training pace? It’s more or less your 5K race pace

.Pace training Many athletes and coaches believe in training at hoped-for racing pace. Particularly if you’re preparing for a race that will take less than 11 minutes, you should add race-pace intervals to your training diet.Racing Any race of 5K or more counts

training on Thursdays and a long run on Sundays. For interval repetitions, he runs 12 x 400 metres or 6 x 800 metres at slightly faster than his 5K race pace. On tempo days, he runs four miles at a pace that’s 10-20 seconds per mile slower than 10K race

This extract is from The Runner's World Complete Book of Running by RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot. You can now preview it, free, for two weeks without risk or obligation. All running programmes for beginners are the same: they move you from walking

college distance runners covering 5K in a 32.2oC heat chamber with and without ice vests to cool their core before their efforts. The "precooled" runners finished 13 seconds faster, which is more than the gap that will separate many gold

. If your BMI drops below 18.5, you're at risk of becoming weaker and slower. WEIGHT LOST 5K 10K HALF-MARATHON MARATHON 900g 12.4 secs 25 secs 52 secs 1:45 2.3kg 31 secs 1:02 2:11 4:22 4.5kg