then should you try adding extra runs on other days – and never double up on more than four days a week. And remember, back off if your pace drops or you start to feel unduly tired or sore.—Steve Smythe, RW Race Services Editor, runner for 30 years

UAN: 172 Article type:-->An entertaining way to train at a variable pace is to run a pyramid session, so called because the distances go up to a peak and then come back down. Try the following, doing all the reps from left to right to make a single

marathoners should include it in their training regime. Speed work-outs (or ‘intervals’) aren’t easy, and if you want to succeed you have to run out of your normal comfort zone, but working hard over a range of distances will yield improved results in your

speed over the distances you like to race. You will also increase your anaerobic, or lactate, threshold, which will allow you to hold your new found faster pace for longer.—Steve Smythe, RW Race Services Editor, coach and a runner for 30 years

Goal: 1:35 Current PB: 1:36:59 View Catherine's Profile | Catherine's Training Thread Here's what lies in store for Catherine over the course of her 1:35 Bupa Great North Run campaign...Pace indications are given in brackets. For example "90

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Goal: 2:15 View Tracy's Profile | Tracy's Training Thread Here's what lies in store for Tracy over the course of her 2:15 Bupa Great North Run campaign...Pace indications are given in brackets. For example "90 mins slow (8:00)" means "Run

Goal: 2:00 Current PB: 2:05 View Bryan's Profile | Bryan's Training Thread Here's what lies in store for Bryan over the course of his 2:00 Bupa Great North Run campaign...Pace indications are given in brackets. For example "90 mins slow (8

UAN: Article type:-->One of the beauties of our sport is that you can run on just about any surface, anywhere in the world. As long as you have feet, you can train wherever you find yourself. But not all surfaces are created equal – vary your