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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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CrossFit Endurance: Train Less, Run Faster
By Selene Yeager on 15/02/2012 09:45:00
Can you run faster and harder by training less? Discover the intense new training regime which promises radical results
and other muscle-pummelling strength training. He kept the high-intensity speedwork found in many 26.2 plans, such as 400m and 800m repeats. It definitely worked for him. His high-test training twist helped MacKenzie dodge injury and finish ultra marathons
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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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Massage Q+A: Does it Work?
By Sam Murphy on 16/09/2011 14:04:27
Elite runners swear by massage to speed recovery, dodge injury and boost performance - now you can too
on many factors: the type, frequency and quality of the massage, if you have a specific problem and what you hope to gain from the treatment. Will a massage knock three minutes off your 10K PB next Sunday? Probably not. But neither will a single set of 800
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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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Be The Best
By Alison Hamlett on 22/06/2004 15:56:45
It's unlikely you'll win every race you enter but you can be a winner every time you race by beating yourself and setting a new PB. Here are nine tips
produced her best 800m, 5000m and 10,000m times in a summer of track racing that followed her marathon debut in London. She followed the track season with a second marathon best – this time a world record – later that year in Chicago. Most famously, Seb Coe
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Race Day Pacing Strategies
By Alison Hamlett on 22/02/2007 15:16:43
On race day, smart pacing can make the difference between triumph and disaster. Reach your potential with these suggested strategies
the opposition, you'll gain a psychological advantage," says Gratton. Smythe agrees, but issues a warning: "There is no harm starting quickly for a short period, say the first 800m in a 5K or first mile in a marathon," he says, "but you should settle into your
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