Category: Mile/1500m

Breaking the Mold Without Breaking the Progression I’ve written two articles already on progressions for milers (Part 1 & Part 2). This could be considered part 2.5 In both of those, I laid workouts that follow simple and predictable progressions that get progressively more challenging. But what happens when you feel like you need to add variety but don’t want to break the progression you’ve built? That’s one of the biggest challenges in designing training plans: We respond well to variety and novel stimuli, but too much variety makes progression much less predictable. A Practical Example Over the last few […]

Building a Miler – Part 1 Rhythm and Economy Takeaways: Running Economy is a combination of how mechanically and metabolically efficient we are at a specific pace Spending time running goal race pace builds running economy at that specific pace Workouts like 20x200m at mile pace allow athletes to accumulate larger total volumes at race pace than workouts with longer reps that are more metabolically taxing This is part one of a four part series that will address the different aspects of teaching athletes how to handle 1500m/mile race efforts and how to incorporate those workouts into training. Each part […]