Building a Miler Part 2
Building a Miler – Part 2 Addressing the Metabolic Demands Takeaways: Running Economy is a combination of how mechanically and metabolically efficient we are at a specific pace While short reps like 200m can help teach pace, longer reps are eventually needed to learn how to sustain it 400m reps are long enough to encounter the metabolic demands we see in a 1500m/mile race without being so long that they become too hard to repeat or recover from We can improve with these intermediate reps by gradually transitioning from running them at our current race pace toward running them at […]