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The Murderous Mile
By Sean Fishpool and Steve Smythe on 06/05/2000 09:51:42
6- to 7-days-a-week 4-week mile schedules
mins easy jog; then 6 x 200m with recoveries of 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 seconds. 30-40 mins slow 1200m time trial; then 10 mins jog; then 4 x 400m with 2-min recoveries with 200m at 3K pace, 200m at 800m pace Rest or 30 mins slow 2 x 2K at 5K pace with 3
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Pace Key
By Runner's World on 06/05/2002 13:05:18
Understanding the terms in your schedules
target half-marathon pace (85% WHR). 'Brisk' sometimes refers to half-marathon pace while 'threshold' refers to 10-mile pace. Often described as feeling 'comfortably hard', aim to hit about an 8 on a perceived-exertion scale of 10. Fast – your 5K or 10K
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RW's 12-week sub-1:30 Half-Marathon schedules
By Steve Smythe on 07/05/2000 10:03:28
The ultimate schedule for the half
Speedwork 6M (inc 5 x 800m, 200m jog) 5K 60 mins 8/10Wed Steady 6M 7:30 45 mins 6/10Thu Fartlek 6M (inc 3M fartlek) 6:30-8:30 50 mins (20 mins fartlek) 7/10Fri Rest Sat Easy 4M 8:00 32 mins 4/10Sun Race 10K (plus 1M warm-up/1M cool-down) 6
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RW Pocket Race Guide - Mid-May
By Daniel Benson on 13/05/2004 09:00:27
What's coming up, what's closing soon, what's filling fast
Closing Soon…Bungay Black 10K Series (Suffolk, May 25) RW Says: Series of three 10K races in May, June and July. Enter all three to gain a discount.Bexhill Seafront 5K Series (Sussex, May 26) RW Says: Scenic seafront race series held
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Beating Exercise Fatigue
By Matt Fitzgerald on 06/03/2007 18:50:48
You know that heavy feeling in your legs that makes you slow down? It starts in your head. Here's how to teach your mind to let you run longer and stronger
muscles, causing you to hit the wall.The perfect example of a highly race-specific session for a 5K runner is an interval session of 5 x 1,000m at 5K race pace, with three-minute jog recoveries between the efforts. Because the session entails running 5K
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Budapest Marathon
By Clemmie Allen on 15/05/2009 11:03:20
Follow history along the course of the Danube in majestic Budapest, packed with reminders of visitors from Romans to revolutionaries
distance options for race-hungry punters of all abilities, including the full 26.2, a 30K, a half and a 3.5K fun run – and nearly 13,000 runners from 50 different countries converged on the city to take them on. Just a two-and- a-half-hour flight away
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TW Relay Team: James's Run Blog #2
By James Barnard on 15/06/2011 13:32:55
In which we discover the secret of James's running success - good old-fashioned hard (speed)work
Time to work out a training schedule. The triathlon is now 8 weeks away. That's more than enough time to give me a fighting chance of running a sub 20-minute 5K. I'm booked into the Standard Chartered Great City Race, which takes place 4 weeks
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Can you be Fat and Fit? (Preview)
By Adam Bean on 02/06/2011 14:39:52
Join the debate over the controversial question
Many of us would describe the ideal runner’s body as lean, lanky and lithe. But then someone who is none of these things blows past us in a 5K, leaving us questioning what ‘fit’ really looks like.Some doctors say people who are overweight (with a
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Races of the Year 2011
By on 09/01/2012 13:30:12
We salute the best running events of 2011, from the Highlands to the south coast – as voted for by Runner’s World readers
of these longer races were surprisingly rated highly for beginners; in fact, you might be wondering where the 5K chart is. Well, we simply didn’t have any standalone 5K races that had enough ratings to include in our guide. To see Runner’s World readers running
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Readers' Races of the Year 2006: 7-14 Votes
By Runner's World on 07/01/2007 16:21:39
You voted for them... here they are. It's your races of 2006 (7-14 votes)
is on your right, you are OK. Steep, slippery, lonesome, lovely." - alistair smith98100%8 ratings11Grizzly, Devon (3/12/06)97100%7 ratings12Gill Pimblett Memorial 5K, Greater Manchester (11/19/06)97100%7 ratings13Wharfedale Off-Road Marathon, North Yorkshire
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