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sub 60 minute schedule added
Incredibly, after being involved in road running since 1982 and performance coaching since 1984, I finally have to admit that I was a touch of an elitist, and considered that everyone should be running sub 60 minutes for 10km. At least, that should be the standard...
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Running, experience and respect
Running deserves respect and the more experienced you become (sadly, this is often via hard knocks) the more you respect the ability to run. Author: Gavin Doyle
Your starting point
Why a 4k time-trial for the 10k Training Programs? – This post is associated to the question asked on the Running Feedback Forums, it shall deal with the progressive nature of the 10k training programs and where you start and why you start there.
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Your starting point
Why a 4k time-trial for the 10k Training Programs? – This post is associated to the question asked on the Running Feedback Forums, it shall deal with the progressive nature of the 10k training programs and where you start and why you start there.
COACHING
The making of the athlete AB
After the 5km time-trial, the week before, we now prepared towards the 10km which would take place on the 20th July in Playa Blanca. This article follows on from - Intro to the athlete AB. I have been given permission to write a warts and all blog about the ups and...
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Progressive Training
Often when discussing the 10k Training Programs, I read and reply to users of the forums who discuss training methods and the want to do other sessions such as hillwork to be incorporated into the schedule or tempo runs. Now whereas all these particular sessions are...
MMS – 10k Program success
One of the successes of the 10k Training Programs that I would like to mention is MMS. Marcelo resides in Brazil and came onto The Training Zone forums in 2009. His first post under the title - Improving 10k with regular training was as follows: "I started running on...
Catching the Dopers
Over the last couple of months, 2013, is proving to be a successful year in catching the dopers. The extent of the Russian 'doping scandal' becomes more evident as more and more cheaters are exposed via the retesting of samples from 2005. Before the London Olympics,...
Stone Age to Performance
So how many of the world's current top athletes and world record holders are on the Paleo Diet? Nutrition plays an important role in our athletic development. It is often so much a process of first the athlete and then the science research into what is then put across...