Devising training sessions is easy. Anyone can come up with a plan that sounds great. Take my old high school track coach, for example. Way back in the mid-1960s, he ordered us distance runners to do 10x400 metres, each in 60 seconds. That’s what US
. This is the opposite of Plan Three. But it works for some runners, just as the long-and-slow approach works for others. A perfect example of the ‘high-responders’ versus ‘low-responders’ principle.American elite runner Scott Strand is a recent convert to long
