HOW TO RUN FASTER
A training plan, guide and advice to help increase your running speed through interval sessions – whatever your level
Interval training can help runners of all abilities to run faster. But, if it’s something you’ve never done before, there’s a few things you should know to make sure you’re doing it safely and getting the full benefit.
It might seem complicated, but interval training is simply periods of running faster (efforts), followed by running slower or walking (recoveries) a few times in a row (number of reps). Your efforts and recoveries can be measured either by time or by distance. So you might run 400 metres of effort followed by 200 metres recovery, or perhaps 5 minutes of effort followed by 90 seconds of recovery.
The length of your effort and recovery, the pace you’re aiming to run each effort and how many reps you do, will vary depending on your fitness and what race distance you’re training for.
You’re looking for consistent times across the efforts. It’s no use running a speedy first rep if the rest get progressively slower|
It’s this balance of pace, distance, recoveries and reps which can make interval training seem tricky. But it doesn’t have to be. It can be as simple as going out on your usual four-mile run route and throwing in 30 seconds of faster paced efforts or ‘surges’ every mile.
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