The high humidity and heat place extra demands on your body while running. Your body directs more blood flow to your skin in order to cool you, thus increasing your heart rate at any given pace. Running is harder in summer and your paces are often slower at the same effort level. Workouts like continuous tempo runs or long intervals become more difficult in the summer. In these long efforts, your heart rate increases as the run progresses and your body works even harder to regulate your ...
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Running Workouts to Improve Mental Toughness
Training is the best arena for developing mental toughness for racing. You can create all the vision boards and inspirational mantras you want, but if you have not practiced mental toughness in training, you will struggle with it on race day. Workouts do not merely prepare you for the physical demands of racing; they prepare you for the mental demands of racing. Whether you struggle with mental toughness or want to improve your race times, try one of these running workouts to improve mental ...
Indoor Track Workouts for Winter Training
I’m not a huge fan of the treadmill. There's no denying treadmill is a valuable training tool, especially in winter. I will use it if the conditions outside are too dangerous to run, but I don’t particularly enjoy it. Like many runners, I prefer moving forward instead of running in place. I prefer to pace based on my own perception of effort rather than dialing numbers into a machine. In previous winters (or conversely, wildfire summers in Seattle), I’d just stick it out on the treadmill. But ...
Beginner Speed Workouts
Last month, I shared some of my (and other runners’) best tips for beginner runners. The next step after building a consistent habit of running is either running further or faster. Today, I want to share tips for beginner runners on how to add speedwork to their training without getting injured - including some sample beginner speed workouts. When Can Beginners Start Doing Speedwork? If you are completely new to running, you want to take a conservative approach. Doing too much too soon is ...
Base Building Running Workouts for the Off Season
Winter is a common off-season for runners. The cold weather, snowy conditions, and lack of upcoming races (often due to said weather) are not exactly conducive to race training. Instead of training for a race, most runners utilize winter as an opportunity for base building and focusing on strength training. The race-specific training period (8-16 weeks before your race, depending on the distance and your goals) is the ideal time for challenging workouts like 2-mile repeats, marathon pace long ...