I never know if I'm getting the most out of my training runs, should I be pushing myself to a breathing rate that is hard work to maintain, or at a reasonable relaxed level over a greater disatance I often find I don't push myself hard enough

I've heard it always good to train close to your race pace.So I normaly run hard at the club twice a week with some cycling in between then on the most weekends i'll do a race.but chatting tonight at the club some people reckon its better to train

Hi all, I'm not much of a reader normally, but when it comes to books on running related issues I seem to be glued to them from cover to cover. One book i've been trying to get my hands on for quite some time now is "Train Hard Win Easy" by Toby

I can't be the only person who has entered a marathon only to have their training disrupted by injury. If you recover in time to be able to run but the training is not there what do you do? Hide in your room and pretend the event never existed

of direction and the fact most of my training was on hard courts.  I also sometimes had two matches in a day against people half my age!As we age your connective tissue loses a lot of its elasticity.  A racket sport with sharp changes of direction and rapid

/week in the last three months.Best of luck to everyone following the Hard Training thread. I wish you all the best in achieving your objectives. glad you're all over your injury that you had last time I saw you, spud, sounds like you've massively improved as well

them. Best of luck on Sunday! Ooops.I posted this morning but forgot to submit it.Ran the 10k route last night. First half is quite hard but the second half is much faster.MikeI have a racing rather than a training question. I've never actually done a

as this might not be good for recent injury.This weeks training is planned as this, what do you think?Mon-did 15 miles hard hilly cycleTues-800m swimWed-5k raceThurs-10 miles steadyFri-5 miles marathon pace plus 1hr circuitsSat-5 miles easySun-17 miles easy That

i,ve heard puala radcliffe talk about blocks of hard and easy training and thought this might be a good way to avoid overtraining injuries,has anyone tried training in blocks, of so many weeks hard then so many weeks easier. This is more than likely

bpm, when i train i try and keep it to about 165 bpm because if i try and get it any lower i might as well walk!! When i completed the last but one 10k my average heart rate was 190bpm with a max of 202bpm,The last 10k i did was so hard i nearly gave