Active Rest Day #4. Keep up your speed and strength work during marathon training

Competitor.com has some great running articles. One recent one was to do with how one maintains one's speed while training for the marathon.

Why Maintaining Your Speed Is Important

Experienced marathoners know the key components to race day success are a high aerobic threshold (the fastest pace you can run while still staying in the aerobic zone, which closely correlates to marathon pace) and the ability to burn fat as a fuel source. The most effective way to improve these two things is a steady diet of aerobic mileage and threshold work.

Unfortunately, these two types of training don’t directly improve your speed. That means if this is the only type of training you’re doing, you can go months neglecting an important energy system during marathon training.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.

Are you going to run some hills at training tonight?


Whatever your plans, DO THEM!