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	Enduring Questions - The Perfect Training Plan By Amby Burfoot on 02/04/2007 12:24:33 Note these ten principles next time you draw up a schedule Devising training sessions is easy. Anyone can come up with a plan that sounds great. Take my old high school track coach, for example. Way back in the mid-1960s, he ordered us distance runners to do 10x400 metres, each in 60 seconds. That’s what US

	The FIRST Three Day A Week Marathon Schedule By Amby Burfoot on 05/12/2006 15:06:54 Tired of slogging through miles of training? Here's how to run your best marathon on three training runs a week others. The 13 veterans among those 21 runners improved on their most recent times by almost 20 minutes. Even more remarkably, they did so with a daring new marathon-training programme from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Daring because

	Enduring Questions: Can Hills Make You Faster? By Amby Burfoot on 07/07/2005 10:23:42 Some runners avoid hills because they can cause injuries and they're, well, hard. Time to reconsider At Runner's World we try to practise what we preach, and so, along with following abstemious diets (well, we try), we also follow our training advice. That means regular speedwork, long runs, rest days and the dreaded hillwork. Repeatedly dragging

	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 varied, low-fat diet. Cross-train to prevent injury and burnout.These are simple concepts, well within my grasp (and yours). When we follow them, life is good. There has, though, always been one more key principle: avoid the demon lactic acid

	Double Your Endurance By Amby Burfoot on 10/05/2005 16:02:25 Introducing the wonders of the running world - seven simple plans to double your endurance further. (Isn’t 26.2 miles far enough?) Instead, they want to improve their speed endurance – the pace at which they can cover substantial distances.Fortunately, you can have it both ways. You can follow training plans that build the length of your long

	Enduring Questions: The Perfect 30-Minute Session By Amby Burfoot on 05/05/2005 11:15:27 Pushed for time? Three experts share their best short sessions Amby Burfoot is Executive Editor of Runner's World USA, and the 1968 Boston Marathon winner Imagine that there was an exercise programme that could guarantee to get you in shape with only three identical 30-minute exercise sessions per week. I

	Enduring Questions: Mile Markers By Amby Burfoot on 07/08/2006 08:45:42 It's more than 60 years since Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, so how long before runners break 3:30? keeps coming up. I visited Peronnet in Montreal some 25 years ago to talk to him and his student, Guy Thibault, about an intriguing computer-based training programme they had written. While it was too far ahead of its time to succeed, Peronnet

	Double Your Endurance By Amby Burfoot on 10/05/2005 16:11:47 A preview for non-subscribers: seven simple plans to double your endurance further. (Isn’t 26.2 miles far enough?) Instead, they want to improve their speed endurance – the pace at which they can cover substantial distances.Fortunately, you can have it both ways. You can follow training plans that build the length of your long

	Enduring Questions: Downhill Running By Amby Burfoot on 09/06/2006 14:51:54 The Boston Marathon drops 480 feet from start to finish, so it should be the fastest, easiest course around, right? Tell that to your trashed quads stride. Regular training mileage strengthens the quads, so they become used to all this stretching and contracting, which exercise physiologists call "eccentric exercise". Result: well-conditioned quads don't complain much.Until you start running downhill

	Enduring Questions: Armstrong vs The Marathon By Amby Burfoot on 03/07/2006 14:23:22 In the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong would devour riders over 2,000-plus miles. Could he do the same over 26.2? Physiological Review," (published in the Scandanavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports) in which he noted that the first Tour winner was a French chimney sweep. "The recent winners are highly trained, professional cyclists," he wrote, "whose lifestyle