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Enduring Questions: Downhill Running
By Amby Burfoot on 09/06/2006 14:51:54
The Boston Marathon drops 480 feet from start to finish, so it should be the fastest, easiest course around, right? Tell that to your trashed quads
good long break, especially if you've just run a hilly marathon. Lastly, some good news. Downhill running builds your strength for future downhill running. If you practise it regularly, you'll gain muscle endurance and suffer less from post-run soreness
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Enduring Questions: Mile Markers
By Amby Burfoot on 07/08/2006 08:45:42
It's more than 60 years since Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, so how long before runners break 3:30?
professor and maths whizz. Bill is also a lifelong runner with a marathon PB of 2:45, so he suffers my questions without much protest. I send him a long list of mile world records, and ask what he sees. He responds with a lecture on "extreme value statistics
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Enduring Questions: Mile Markers (Preview)
By Amby Burfoot on 07/08/2006 08:51:47
It's more than 60 years since Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, so how long before runners break 3:30? (Non-subscriber preview)
When Gunder Hagg ran 4:01.4 to set a mile world record in 1945, his achievement stood for 3,215 days - almost nine years. Then Roger Bannister ran his historic 3:59.4 on May 6, 1954. Bannister's record lasted just 46 days before John Landy took it down to 3:58.0. "For a few minut...
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Enduring Questions: Armstrong vs The Marathon
By Amby Burfoot on 03/07/2006 14:23:22
In the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong would devour riders over 2,000-plus miles. Could he do the same over 26.2?
realise that's pretty impressive, when it comes to endurance sports I see things through a runner's eyes. I naturally wonder how tough the Tour really is, and what kind of marathon Armstrong could run. The answer hinges on stuff that's familiar to runners
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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
University in New York.Since his book Daniels’ Running Formula was published in 1998, many high school and college coaches have adopted the Daniels approach. I believe the general upswing in American distance running success over the last decade is partly a
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Enduring Questions: Armstrong vs Marathon: Preview
By Amby Burfoot on 03/07/2006 15:09:52
In the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong devoured riders over 2,000-plus miles. Could he do the same over 26.2? (Non-subscriber preview)
realise that's pretty impressive, when it comes to endurance sports I see things through a runner's eyes. I naturally wonder how tough the Tour really is, and what kind of marathon Armstrong could run. The answer hinges on stuff that's familiar to runners
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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
Father Time, but runners do pretty well. In general, we lose our VO2 max at a rate that's 40 to 50 per cent slower than that of non-exercisers, with the result that we tend to live longer and more vigorously.It's relatively simple, in theory, to minimise
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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
in training distances, anaerobic capacity, and strength." A chapter in the International Olympic Committee's 1992 book Endurance and Sport reported a study of runners who did 12 weeks of regular training, plus "hill training with ‘bounce running'." After
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Enduring Questions: The Perfect 30-Minute Session
By Amby Burfoot on 05/05/2005 11:15:27
Pushed for time? Three experts share their best short sessions
’m not generally a believer in Ultimate Simplicity As The Solution To Everything, but it would have an undeniable appeal in this overweight, under-exercising world.However, according to our transatlantic cousins, we don’t need to imagine this idyllic scenario
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Enduring Questions: Does Runner's High Exist?
By Amby Burfoot on 07/04/2005 12:02:37
Shock answer! No... (well, not quite)
Like so many of the other firsts in my life – first school, first kiss, first child – I remember my first “runner’s high” as if it were yesterday. It came on a perfect October afternoon while I was running near a cider mill near my childhood home. A warm sun trickled through the ...
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