One of the main doubts of master runners is how good their performance is. As Bill Pierce, Scott Murr, and Ray Moss point out in their book Run Less, Run Faster, there are ways to find out through the WMA conversion tables. What is the WMA age classification? The...
Tempo training: intense but controlled pace
Many running training plans include a “tempo” session, so we would like to explain this routine to those unfamiliar briefly. What is tempo training? Jack Daniels popularized the term tempo run to refer to a type of training in which you run at a “strong but...
Improve your endurance by training your breathing
If you train to improve your cardiorespiratory endurance, why don't we pay special attention to the respiratory muscles? Despite the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of specific training of the respiratory muscles to improve sports performance, few athletes...
Slow Running to get Fast: How and Why
A common mistake we make both when we start running and when we have been training for a while is to run at too fast a pace all the time. This is also frequent when we train with people who have been running longer than us and are used to training at a faster pace....