Bored with working the identical intervals or hill repeats on speedwork days? A cut-down tempo run will add some zest to your routine whereas setting your physique as much as run arduous on race day. In a cut-down run, the longer, mentally powerful sections of the exercise are achieved first, with intervals getting shorter and sooner as you proceed.
This may be a good way to extend depth in your pace exercises with out including danger of damage–your physique could be very warmed up and able to roll by the point you hit the sooner sections.
How do I run it?
The cut-down tempo run utilizing distance or time, with the objective of accelerating your pace because the intervals get shorter. It’s a good way to prime your legs and lungs to work arduous when fatigued, serving to you grasp that ending kick on race day.
Relaxation is brief in a cut-down run, so sustaining a easy tempo within the early intervals is vital so that you simply’ll nonetheless be capable to enhance your pace on the finish. In each these exercises, start at round your half-marathon tempo, selecting up pace with every interval till you’re working at 5K race tempo for the ultimate push.
Lower-down exercise by distance
Heat up with 2–3 kilometres of simple working
Run 1 km more durable adopted by 200m simple working for restoration, 800m arduous adopted by 200m simple, 400m, 200m, 100m (sustaining the 200m mild jog in between every interval).
Settle down with 2–3 kilometres of simple working
Lower-down exercise by time
Heat up with 10–quarter-hour of simple working.
Run 5:00 minutes at objective tempo, one minute of simple working for restoration, 4:00 minutes at objective tempo (sustaining the minute of restoration in between every interval), 3:00, 2:00, 1:00.
Settle down with 10–quarter-hour simple working
Be certain that to comply with your speedwork periods with a restoration day or a day of simple working.
