How do i become a better distance runner?
If you mean distance like a marathon or half marathon, here are too good workouts below. They will make you become a stronger distance runner. Mile Repeats In an article in Marathon & Beyond in 2002, veteran marathoner Dan Horvath plotted various workouts against his subsequent results in 30 marathons over a 12-year period. The most effective workout? Mile repeats. Horvath would typically run 6 x 1-mile at his 10-K race pace once a week. It turned out that the faster his mile repeats prior to a given marathon, the faster his marathon time. Mile repeats are a modified form of tempo training. Yasso 800s This deceptively simple workout has been used effectively by thousands of runners. The goal, after several months of working up to it, is to run 10 x 800 meters in the same minutes:seconds as your goal time (in hours:minutes). If you want to run a 3:40 marathon, for example, you run your Yasso 800s in 3 minutes, 40 seconds. This workout isn’t based on physiology; it’s just a very tough ef
