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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: 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
book Running the Lydiard Way, co-written by Garth Gilmour. In its ideal form, Lydiard's hill training takes place on a two-mile layout that includes a steepish uphill of 300 to 400 metres, a not-so-steep downhill of about 800m, and relatively flat
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Enduring Questions - The Perfect Training Plan
By Amby Burfoot on 02/04/2007 12:24:33
Note these ten principles next time you draw up a schedule
developed sophisticated variations on the basic approach.Pump up your stride rate to 180 per minute At the 1984 Olympics, Daniels and his wife, Nancy, analysed the stride frequencies of runners from 800m to the marathon. At distances from 5,000m on, the top
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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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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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