Whether you call it tempo running or anaerobic, lactate or ventilatory threshold training doesn’t matter. Threshold training works, and adding it to your schedule is sure to make you faster and more efficient in endurance races.Threshold training

often see round figures quoted in general guides, ranging from 70-90 per cent of MHR. Unfortunately, the reason they’re so vague is that – as we’ve found out – we’re all different.In the early days, you’d have needed a physiological lab test to find

Q I’ve 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 I’m working at just 60 per cent of my predicted

UAN: 158 Article type:--A threshold is the point at which something changes. Anyone who has been carried (or has carried someone) across a threshold would agree that life changes dramatically thereafter. (For the better, of course!)As a runner

-like-magic method that helped propel Paul Tergat, the former marathon world record holder, to greatness. The secret? The tempo run – that faster-paced session also known as a lactate-threshold, LT or threshold run. One US-based coach championing this method

© Getty ImagesIf you feel like you can't run any further once you've hit the 20-mile mark in a marathon – your legs have turned to lead and your mind to mush – you might have started out too fast. Fortunately, there is a simple way around this. A progression run means starting ou...

. Personally, I think this is a fine way of doing things.The Lactate ThresholdWhen you’re reading, walking, or just running very slowly, your muscles burn modest amounts of carbohydrate and produce modest amounts of lactic acid, which doesn’t do you any harm

percentage of VO2max, making them feel easier. When you improve your VO2max you can then increase race pace to match your usual race intensity (the percentage of VO2max). Because lactate-threshold velocity is tightly related to race speeds, improving your

Hard Training Q&AsTRAINING GENERAL• Do I need to take an "easy week" when my average mileage isn’t that high? • Should you try and break through ‘the wall’ in training? • Is it just the cold weather, or am I getting fitter? • How do I overcome

the maximum value from your treadmill sessions by running them at race pace or faster. Because of the lack of air resistance, you can run faster on a treadmill than on the road, once you get used to it.I suggest that one of your sessions is at threshold pace