Few of you are coming to me with a focus on your one mile pace, so we’re looking at running workouts that are going to test your speed and improve your endurance.
There are tons of ways to incorporate speed training and I hope these ideas will help to bring a little fun to your training, along with improvements.
If you’re wondering why you should incorporate different types of running workouts, or which ones are the most common out there, don’t worry I’ve got you covered!
I’ll be discussing that in this article, as well as giving you 14 different running workouts which include 7 common ones, and 7 that I’ve specially created to spruce things up if you’re used to the common ones.
Want to learn everything there is about running workouts? Then keep on reading!
Why Incorporate a Variety of Running Workouts?
Many runners tend to run at the same speed day after day. Running at the exact same effort is a problem because you may not be running easy enough to get the aerobic benefits we want for endurance and yet not hard enough to get the anerobic benefits of a speed session.
We call that grey zone running.
These types of runs are usually done at a speed that’s 75% of our max efforts, which isn’t fast enough to make our bodies work hard and adapt, but it’s also…
