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RW's Definitive Serious Speedwork: Mile Sessions
By Steve Smythe on 01/06/2000 17:04:06
Six variations on the simple favourite

UAN: 170 Article type:-->The mile repetition (or 1600m – four laps of an athletics track) is a simple, but favourite, standard distance that focuses more on strength than speed. Below the basic table, there are some different mile sessions

Hard works
By Steve Smythe on 01/06/2002 17:04:06
The definitive serious speedwork article - packed with examples

effective your racing will be. Remember, a 10K race is effectively 25 x 400m with zero recovery. Now can you see why speedwork is the most important session of the week? We’ve divided our definitive speedwork guide into four sections: 400m RepetitionsMile

RW's Definitive Serious Speedwork: Other Sessions
By Steve Smythe on 01/06/2000 17:04:06
From 200s to time trials

seconds, you could try to start each repetition every 60 seconds.If you want a less taxing session that generates more speed, have a 200m recovery spread over two minutes and aim to run significantly faster than mile speed. Because a runner’s speed over

RW's Definitive Serious Speedwork: 400m Sessions
By Steve Smythe on 01/06/2000 16:59:24
The very best one-lap sessions

UAN: 169 Article type:-->One lap of a standard athletics track, 400m efforts make a simple stock session for shorter-distance racing, but are also a good work-out for anyone looking to improve their pure speed. 1500m specialists will probably run 8

Q+A: I only have one pace. How can I speed up?
By Steve Smythe on 09/09/2002 17:45:51
Our experts answer real-life questions

don’t have a heart-rate monitor, just run your session on a familiar measured loop. During the tempo section, try to hit your half-marathon mile splits. Once you’ve mastered the tempo run, you’ll see that it’s a great way of improving your sustained

RW's Definitive Serious Speedwork: Pyramids etc
By Steve Smythe on 01/06/2000 17:04:06
Up and down, and round and round

session: Repetition 400m 800m 1200m 1600m 1200m 800m 400mPace Mile pace 5K pace 10K pace 10M pace 5M pace 3K pace 1000m paceRecovery 100m 200m 300m 400m 300m 200mBest 10K (/400m)              35 (84.0) 72 2:40 4:12 5:40 4:06 2:30 7040 (96.0) 83 3:03 4

Bupa GNR Schedule: Catherine (1:35)
By Steve Smythe on 21/07/2008 14:04:31
Catherine's personalised 1:35 half-marathon schedule

mins slow (8:00)" means "Run for 90 minutes at eight-minute-mile pace."   Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Week 1 (w/c July 21) 30 mins easy or rest 10 mins warm-up, then 3 x 1M at 10K pace (6:30 - 7:00) with 3-min recoveries, then 10 mins

Top 10 Running Surfaces
By Marc Bloom and Steve Smythe on 01/06/2002 14:29:22
Not all running surfaces are created equal - we've rated the top 10, from asphalt to woodland

location and you’ll vary your session, because of the different impacts involved and the stresses which make their way up to your joints. “In the summer, when I run mainly on grass, my whole body seems to relax,” said two-time world indoor champion Marcus O

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