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Endurance training question
On 05/07/2010 in forum
How much further than target race?
for 10km (!) and only speedwork will improve my times over that distance ... Yes, you'll definately have the endurance so it's just a question of putting in some speedwork to help you get faster. Good luck
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Enduring Questions - Are Free Radicals Harmful?
On 05/12/2006 in Staying Healthy
Should you be afraid of free radicals? Running produces them, illness is caused by them, antioxidants combat them. Or maybe not
has been studying questions like this for more than 20 years, in between running 58 marathons (with a 2:37 PB) and ultra-marathons. He is also a doctor of public health and a professor of exercise science at Appalachian State University in the USA. I
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Enduring Questions - The Perfect Training Plan
On 02/04/2007 in General
Note these ten principles next time you draw up a schedule
training schedules and his philosophy, but mostly I peppered him with questions. He answered many by reaching for the bulging folders in a nearby filing cabinet. “I studied that back in the 1960s [or 1970s or 1980s], and I’ve got the answer right here,” he
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Enduring Questions: Can Hills Make You Faster?
On 07/07/2005 in General
Some runners avoid hills because they can cause injuries and they're, well, hard. Time to reconsider
in training distances, anaerobic capacity, and strength." A chapter in the International Olympic Committee's 1992 book Endurance and Sport reported a study of runners who did 12 weeks of regular training, plus "hill training with ‘bounce running'." After
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Enduring Questions: Marathon Drinking - How Much?
On 07/02/2006 in Nutrition
You used to worry about not being hydrated enough. But recent studies say that too much could be far worse. What's the truth?
During Endurance Exercise, in which he noted that the condition appeared to be caused "by voluntary hyperhydration". Yet if anyone read the paper beyond Noakes’s immediate family, there was little indication of it. Runners and Ironman triathletes kept
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question on endurance run
On 20/11/2005 in forum
i am about to go on a 2 hour one today. last week i run a 10 miler in 65 mins. now i know endurance runs are no where near your race pace but how fast should my miles be input would be greatly recieved cheers err, difficult to say
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Enduring Questions: Downhill Running
On 09/06/2006 in General
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
good long break, especially if you've just run a hilly marathon. Lastly, some good news. Downhill running builds your strength for future downhill running. If you practise it regularly, you'll gain muscle endurance and suffer less from post-run soreness
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Enduring Questions: Mile Markers
On 07/08/2006 in General
It's more than 60 years since Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, so how long before runners break 3:30?
professor and maths whizz. Bill is also a lifelong runner with a marathon PB of 2:45, so he suffers my questions without much protest. I send him a long list of mile world records, and ask what he sees. He responds with a lecture on "extreme value statistics
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Enduring Questions: Ageing And Slowing
On 11/05/2006 in General
Did you know that if you can run a four-hour marathon at age 30, you should be able to pip under 4:30 at age 49? Amby Burfoot examines how much you should expect to slow as you age
Runners are divided into two camps: those who love numbers and those who don't. Members of the latter group prefer to focus on the Zen of running - they're always talking about the running "experience". This experience, they contend, is the essence of running not mileage total...
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Enduring Questions: Mile Markers (Preview)
On 07/08/2006 in General
It's more than 60 years since Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, so how long before runners break 3:30? (Non-subscriber preview)
When Gunder Hagg ran 4:01.4 to set a mile world record in 1945, his achievement stood for 3,215 days - almost nine years. Then Roger Bannister ran his historic 3:59.4 on May 6, 1954. Bannister's record lasted just 46 days before John Landy took it down to 3:58.0. "For a few minut...
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