of their maximum heart rate, a pace that quality-wise could be considered moderate.The key difference between the two groups was that the high-mileage group trained six days a week, while the low-mileage group only trained four days a week. On Mondays
for example, that would be 10 miles steady, 10 miles tempo, five miles fast and five miles slow. This has the advantage that you can get some steady miles in for general conditioning, you get practice at running near to race pace, and you get to do some
shortlist of 18 runners. A week of frantic voting on runnersworld.co.uk followed as site members chose the ASICS Super Six 2011 final line-up. ON THE DAY The Runner's World and ASICS team split 37 attendees into three groups based on pace. Each group took
, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances so your pickups vary in length from 15-90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance. If youre with a group, take turns choosing, sometimes revealing your choice ahead of time, sometimes
As any runner who’s ever felt their legs turn into lead anvils at the end of a hard session or race knows, running further or faster all boils down to a battle against fatigue. So you train to increase either the distance or the pace – or both – you
they did appear, they hardly poured. Three feeble old harriers can’t pour. Pouring was what we did in the 1980s, when 30 would show up for the Sunday Morning Run and there was a Fast Group, a Middle Group and a Slow Group, and the Slow Group was twice
Q Ive been trying threshold running, using a heart rate monitor and keeping my mile pace at 10 seconds below my 10K race pace. However, I struggle to maintain this speed, even though my HRM says Im working at just 60 per cent of my predicted
frequently should you do them, and at what pace?We posed a number of these questions to a group of coaches and athletes who work or train with thousands of runners. Although the application of long-run theory differs between experts, the one thing they all
Mile RepetitonsPyramids and Mixed SessionsOther sessionsThey're all based around your 10K pace, and they're all full of examples and variations. Group RunningMany clubs have track nights on Tuesdays and Thursdays and many will allow you to join in even if you aren
Tunes How to make the most of RW's free pace groups
