My clubs evening speed training sessions consist of quite short bursts just now; 2x5min / 3x3 / 4x2 with 2 min recoveries.should I not be concentrating more on longer efforts so early in the year?
Dear AllWithout going through all the (boring) particulars I've largely negelected speed work for the past 2 months or so.I have the Berlin Marathon on 26 Sept so have four proper training weeks left before the taper. Can anyone suggest some appropriate sessions that will make a...
Hi, Running for just over a year and plucked up the courage to join some local speed merchants for a weekly track session.The workouts are pre planned and varied, I thoroughly enjoy them - though not at the time obviously.Anyhow to my question....If we are doing 4 x 1600 @ 6:30mi...
Speedwork's probably the training session I know the least about. At the moment I'm doing 4x1 mile at goal race pace, which A. Probably isn't enough distance, and B. Not fast enough. So can anyone recommend me some tried and tested sessions
Q. Im a novice runner and I am working my way up to 30 minutes of running at 12-minute/mile pace. I plan to stick at 30 minutes for one month, then start adding some speed before a 5K. What would be the best speedwork for me?A. Begin your
OK, so I can program my Garmin (Forerunner 305) to do speedwork. i.e. 1 mile at slowish pace, 3 miles fast and another 1 mile at slowish pace.However, when it comes to speedwork run on Smartcoach, how do I set that up?I have to do 1 mile warm up
well i had to share this with you. my best 10km was 51.12 this year, my first aim was to beat 50.00. im training over 5 km i had only got down to 27.00ish. any way middle of september i upped my millage and for a couple of weeks stuck too 19 miles which for me was very good. anyw...
I've just completed the Brighton marathon, and now I want to start working on some shorter distances and getting some speed.In training runs, I usually run 9:15-10:30m/m depending on how I'm feeling and who I'm running with (I'm hardly Speedy Gonzalez!), and my race PBs are:5k - ...
Hi there,Have been running regularly for nearly 2 years now. Usually run about 3 to 5 miles 3 or 4 times a week. Have decided i need to introduce something to increase my speed as i always pold along at the same old pace and also still struggle up hills a bit.Anyway, me knee ha...
