Long Run For 100km Trail Race: Training
How to approach the long run for 100km trail race. There’s an important concept we need to get our heads around. The speed we race a 100km race is relatively slow. Compared to your 5km or half marathon speed, 100km is run significantly slower. This needs to be remembered when...
When You Have A System That Works: Mess With It
When you have a system that’s working why not mess with it? One day hard followed by two days easy has been working well for me lately. In fact it seems to be the gold standard for progressing my running. This training block I’ve decided to mess with...
Training Balance: Going Fast and Far
I can shuffle out some long distances. The pace won’t get me anywhere near my goals. This brings me to the classic dilemma of most runners: How do you balance going fast with going far? Going Fast My first attempt at 3 x 1000m repeats was a...