Endurance Explained

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 […]

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What Makes a Great College Coach? At the collegiate level, people constantly mistake athlete development for coaching. It’s an honest mistake. We know that coaching involves making an athlete better than they were the day before and so it makes sense to think that the best coaches are the ones that improve their athletes the most. But that isn’t the full picture. In a world where everyone starts out at a different baseline and colleges have a variety of resources to offer, recruiting will always play a role. A Tale of Two Coaches Let’s imagine we have two coaches in […]

The Workout and Why #2 The Workout 20x200m at goal 1500m/mile pace with 200m jog recovery The Why This workout offers a lot of volume at goal race pace. With 2.5 miles of 1500m/mile race pace it gives an athlete plenty of opportunity to build economy at a new pace while keeping the reps short enough that the session isn’t overwhelming. Despite the pace, this workout is predominantly aerobic. The 200m recovery jog is roughly 1:2 work to rest ratio, this keeps the workout from getting too glycolytic/acidic. This makes it a good choice early in the season when we’re […]