or twice per year.Why: Racing one hard marathon during spring and another in autumn allows time for adequate preparation and recovery.Goal: Marathon for fun and fitnessHow often: Three or four times per year.Why: If youre not aiming to improve personal
Many elite runners plan their racing calendars a year or more in advance. There are some right now who know that in order to be on the starting line of an Olympic final in Beijing in August 2008, they need to hit an A-standard qualifying time in a
sessions every two to four weeks. Generally, these workouts are done at 3,000m pace (eight to 12 seconds per mile faster than 5K race pace). The pace is fast, so don't make these your first repeats of the season. Classic Six to eight lots of three minutes
and Wednesdays, the low-mileage group didnt run, while the high-mileage group ran for 45 minutes.Race Day ResultsAt the end of the 18 weeks, the runners in both groups had nearly identical statistics:Exactly the same reduction in percentage of body-fat (10 per
UAN: 157 Article type:col-->In the spring of 1971, two Finnish runners trained in the mountains around Provo, Utah. Although they trained there for only one year, Pekka Vasala and Lasse Viren became famous for their incredibly tough fartlek
