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Heart Rate Training: Threshold Runs
By Joe Dunbar on 05/06/2000 10:51:31
Threshold work is an essential part of any serious training schedule - and using a heart rate monitor is the easiest way to make sure you get the intensity right
minutes and 2 x 10 minutes.All these sessions are at threshold intensity, governed by your heart rate. Start with a thorough warm-up and allow your heart rate to rise gradually in the first few minutes by adopting a sensible pace, so that you dont have
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Heart Beat: Finding Your Threshold Heart Rate
By Joe Dunbar on 05/06/2000 10:55:31
How to establish your ideal rate for threshold sessions
point, press the store button on your HRM (or tell your partner your rate)Speed increase should be about 2-3 seconds per 200m (or 0.5km/h on a treadmill)Keep going until you cant increase your paceJog gently afterwards to cool down graduallyPlot your
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Q+A: I can't do threshold runs. Is my HRM wrong?
By Alison McConnell on 09/09/2002 17:45:51
Our experts answer real-life questions
be lower than 60 per cent. In my own laboratory weve measured heart rates at the lactate threshold ranging between 140 and 185 in a group of male athletes in their 20s; this ranged from 70 per cent to 90 per cent of their MHR. I suspect that the reason
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Burn, Baby, Burn
By Ed Eyestone on 01/06/2002 15:49:50
Learn to train at your lactate threshold, and you'll be on your way to faster racing
s somewhat inconvenient, here is an easy way to make a reasonably close guess: add 35-40 seconds per mile to your 5K race pace, or 15-25 seconds per mile to your 10K race pace.Then you need to train to raise your threshold. Try the following two training
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How To Run A Better 10-mile Race
By Owen Anderson on 06/05/2002 13:28:29
10 keys to running 10 miles better
consistent, you can easily predict your expected 10-mile race pace. It should be about 12-15 seconds per mile slower than your 10K speed, provided the terrain, wind and temperature on the course are similar to conditions you encountered in your 10Ks.3. If you
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The Perfect Tempo Run
By John Hanc on 19/11/2007 12:24:14
The 'comfortably hard' run is the key to clocking your fastest time, at any distance
of champions is Toby Tanser. In 1995, when Tanser was an elite young track runner from Sweden, he trained with the Kenyans’ ‘A’ team for seven months. They ran classic tempos – a slow 15-minute warm-up, followed by at least 20 minutes at a challenging
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How To Run At Your Ideal Paces
By Amby Burfoot on 01/11/2002 15:55:38
Running fast too slowly and running slowly too fast - it's easy for runners to misjudge their training pace. But with the right guidance, everyone can train more effectively
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Fast Forward
By Alex Hutchinson and Anna Downing on 07/08/2008 11:24:06
Progression runs fine-tune your pacing, boost your fitness and ramp up your speed
marathons. In 2002, Rosa had Tergat turn virtually every effort into a progression run, accelerating until he was running as hard as he could over the final mile. The result was a world record of 2:04:55 at the 2003 Berlin Marathon.McMillan found that making
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Enduring Questions: How Lactate Makes A Run Better
By Amby Burfoot on 07/10/2005 09:38:03
It makes your legs burn and can ruin a run, but lactic acid is just misunderstood
was already a marathon runner, and most of my runs were long and slow. My cross-country conqueror took a different tack. He focused on hard 1,200m intervals, subjecting his muscles to the kind of stress he’d face in competition. At times he also ran 400m
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The Seeds of Speed
By Owen Anderson on 01/11/2002 17:19:50
What really builds your speed? Here are the technical secrets of how to make your body work for you
lactate-threshold velocity also heightens race performances. For example, 10K race speed is about 2.5 per cent faster than lactate-threshold (LT) speed, so improvements in LT will force your 10K pace upwards. Enhancing economy also increases average race
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