distance running
Looking for something to scratch that long distance running itch? Or are you coaching running? The articles below provide you with distance running workouts and tips on long distance running. In a sport where fitness training is central to success, the running techniques detailed here will get you to the finish first… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.
Strength training for distance runners
Can lifting weights help middle distance runners run faster or further with no corresponding improvements in aerobic fitness?
Improve your distance-running performance
Explosive type strength training enhances distance-running performance
Sports Injury: Distance Running
Bleeding risk for ultra runners
distance runners
Distance runners: Running is a poor man's sport: Bruce Tulloh on the inexorable decline in Northern European endurance running
strength endurance
Strength endurance: Power without mass: how strength and plyometric training can boost endurance running performance
distance running veterans
Distance running veterans - Is ageing inevitable - or simply the result of 'detraining'?
East African running
East African running: an alternative explanation for the East African dominance of distance running
Marathon injuries - the risks facing first time marathon runners
Injury risks for marathon 'virgins'
Ethiopian endurance running
Nature and nurture in Ethiopian endurance running success
distance running training
Distance running training - How
Running Economy: increased joint flexibility may damage your distance running performance
The effect of increasing the flexibility of joints on distance running
Half marathon and 5k run training: performance enhancing workouts that will improve your distance running
Half-marathon and 5K workouts - These are the 'golden workouts' for success
Distance Running: Cross country training
Cross-country runners: Owen Anderson answers training queries
Extreme distance running: an ultra endurance training plan
Beyond the marathon
Marathon training: race pacing for endurance athletes
An insight into how Kenyan runners pace themselves during distance running events
Anaerobic training
Anaerobic Training: If you're a 5K runner, don't neglect the crucial 7 per cent
10k
10k: If you want to set a world 10K record, run the second half slightly faster - and do it in July in Scandinavia!
Distance running: cross country training workouts
If you want to be as successful as Kenyan distance runners you need to train like them!
The mile
A new training regime for your own "miracle" mile based on recent research carried out in the US at George Washington University and the University of Rhode Island.
Time-splitting and race results
If it makes sense to run the second half faster than the first, then why do the Kenyans go out so fast?
10k training
10k training: What does science have to say about the right training programme for the 10K?
genetics and sports performance
Genetics And Performance: What research tells us about African runners: are they really genetically more gifted?
genetics in sport
What research tells us about African runners: are they really genetically more gifted?
Sub 4 minute mile
Sub 4 Minute Mile: Here's a training programme designed to crack the ultimate goal: the sub-four-minute mile.
Distance running & testosterone
Distance Running & Testosterone: Can distance running determine the sex of your children
5000 metres training
5000 Metres Training: If you've got the 5000 metre blues, here's a way to get you back on song
Half marathon training
Half Marathon Training: The key to improving your half-marathon times is in your 10K running.
Steeplechase training
Steeplechase training: How I cut my steeplechase times by 30-40 seconds.
personal bests
Personal Bests: These are the changes to concentrate on if you want to produce more PBs.
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