Speed on Hills

Speed on Hills

Warm up first. Pick a hill with lamp posts, ie Customhouse hill or road by lifeboat station that runs along the coast. Run as fast as you can to the lamp post at the top of the hill, recover on the way down, run fast as you can to the lampost one before the previous...
Long Runs

Long Runs

Fartlek (Swedish for Speed Play) Descending Tempo Fartlek Begin this session with a 6:00 minute run at roughly your half-marathon pace (if you don’t know what your pace would be just aim to be slower than usual) The recovery is half of the time of the piece (in this...
Surge Run

Surge Run

Surge training involves bursts of faster running (and recovery) built into a longer run. For the surges you’re not going for an all out sprint but you do need to pick up the pace maybe think of your 5k pace. Start with a nice steady run (15 mins) to a quiet well lit...