Running — Repeats

The purpose of the interval run is to increase your speed, improve your running economy and teach your body to increase or “push back” your anaerobic threshold. During your interval workout, you should combine shorter periods of high intensity of extreme effort with recovery periods of jogging or walking.  

The pace of your high intensity period should be based on perceived effort levels, and you should feel the need to gasp and grab your knees at the end of the high intensity period to get the full effect (but not so much...

In our last blog, we talked about the benefits of the long run in building your running endurance, but for many of us even as we build our endurance and run longer we find it somewhat difficult to maintain our desired pace. 

How many of us find ourselves running slower during the latter portion of our runs? I know I do, even when I purposely go out slower on a run sometimes the fatigue will set in and I’ll slow down toward the end of my run. 

One of the best ways to maintain that pace...