to improve my pace, I added a special ingredient to my training. Hard work! Hard work in the form of group speedwork sessions every week. And during my training for the London Marathon this year, while adding a speed session or two, my office nickname

," says Jason Karp, an online running coach in San Diego, US (runcoachjason.com). If you're new to speedwork or coming back after injury, reduce the number of intervals in the following workouts by half and spend more time warming up, recovering

schedule from week to week and alternate your route or running partners to boost your motivation. If you're focused on an ambitious goal, such as a first race or a new distance, alternate focused weeks - complete with hills, long runs and speedwork

routine within three to four weeks," says David Allison, a running coach based in Arizona, US. So stick to a basic mix of speedwork, tempo runs and long runs, but make some weekly tweaks and adjust these workouts."For example, if you ran four one

Tempo workouts, speedwork, long runs, not to mention work, family and life in general... how can a runner fit it all in? One time-efficient solution: combo workouts, which blend elements of quality runs to make the most of every minute you have

the experience throughout.A few words for the rest of the Huddle team. Firstly Bulat who is simply a machine. With only about 8 weeks of injury-free training, and without following a prescribed schedule, and with zero speedwork, he raced round in a brilliant 3