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RW's 10-week sub-1:50 half-marathon schedules
By Bruce Tulloh on 07/05/2000 09:44:43
Classic schedules for the half
, finishing faster 4M easy Warm up, then 8 x 90 secs fast, 90 secs slow Rest Warm up, then 4 x 800m (or 4 x 3 mins), with 3-min recovery jogs 7-8M slowWEEK 4 4M easy 6M, fairly fast Repetitions: 4 x 3 mins fast, with 2-min recoveries 5M easy Rest 1M jog
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RW's 12-week sub-2:15 Half-Marathon schedules
By Steve Smythe on 07/05/2000 09:56:55
The ultimate schedule for the half
goal pace in Week Eight, you will gain fitness over the final month and the run itself will increase your chances at the end of Week 12. Day Session Distance Pace Time Intensity Mon Rest Tue Speedwork 4 x 800m, 200m jog (5M total) 5K 60 mins
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Vets In Practice
By Alison Hamlett on 07/02/2006 14:51:39
The passage of time need not slow you down. These three veterans are more golden than olden
Monday45-minute road run. Pace set according to how Agyei feelsTuesdayAM Easy 35-minute jog PM Track session: 10 x 200m, 4 x 400m faster than 800m paceWednesdayOne-hour steady road runThursday AM Easy 35-minute jog morningPM Track session at 1500m pace eg
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Bupa GNR Schedule: Catherine (1:35)
By Steve Smythe on 21/07/2008 14:04:31
Catherine's personalised 1:35 half-marathon schedule
cool-down 60 mins easy 40 mins, including 10 mins at half-marathon pace (7:00 - 7:15) 30 mins easy or rest Heckington 10 Cross-trainingWeek 2 (w/c July 28) 30 mins easy or rest 10 mins warm-up, then 6 x 800m at 10K pace (6:30 - 7:00) with 2-min
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Six Secrets Of Successful Runners
By Matt Barbour on 23/10/2009 14:10:39
What really improves running performance? We asked the top elites and their trainers how you can get the most out of your quality workouts
lap in the recent indoor 800m World Championships and completely blew up," he explains. Get into the habit of 'feeling' pace – try running at threshold or race pace without looking at your watch. "It comes through experience, but being able to switch
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The 10 Marathon Foundations
By Runner's World on 07/08/2002 12:34:55
Follow these long-time marathon principles and success will be yours!
-flow to your leg muscles, ensuring that they get all the oxygen that they need during the marathon. This will help you combat fatigue. Long runs improve VO2max, but you can also boost it by running 800m intervals at your best two-mile pace, 1200m intervals at 5
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The RW D.I.Y Coaching Team (Preview)
By Matt Barbour on 01/07/2008 12:17:29
With this advice from the country's top running coaches and health and fitness professionals, you can train yourself to run your best (non-subscriber preview)
and as evenly paced as possible and use your average speed when doing your 400-800m intervals. Put your new times to use. "At the end of each interval training session, you should be just about able to keep up the pace – if you can, increase your duration by 10
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Enduring Questions: Ageing And Slowing
By Amby Burfoot on 11/05/2006 11:30:06
Did you know that if you can run a four-hour marathon at age 30, you should be able to pip under 4:30 at age 49? Amby Burfoot examines how much you should expect to slow as you age
boys and grandmothers, ages 8 to 80, at distances from 800m to the marathon and beyond. In the mid-1980s, a group called the World Masters Association began using a comparable American database to produce age- and gender-graded tables. These tables
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Running You Ragged
By Marc Bloom on 24/03/2003 16:14:06
Running is the best stress-reliever around - but it's sometimes easy to forget that. Here's how to stop your favourite sport becoming a stress in itself
-time American Olympian whos been collecting national titles and setting records at distances from the 800m to the marathon for more than three decades, doesnt need to make any apologies for her slower pace. In the last few years her age and her 30 years
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Lucozade Sport Super Six: Rob (sub-4:00)
By Runner's World on 19/12/2008 02:00:54
Follow the progress of Rob, our sub-4:00 hopeful, as he receives expert advice from mentor Steve Smythe
up and ready to go. It's all systems go for April 26 now.Steve says: Rob's had another pretty much perfect fortnight, including some excellent speedwork (800m and mile reps) and what Rob described as his best long run ever. Apart from an ankle ache
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