Posts Tagged ‘tempo runs’

If you want to get faster, speed workouts are the key to the kingdom. I’ve found tempo runs to be one of the best types of workouts to build speed and endurance for races. They’re also easy to execute, once you know what to do. What are tempo runs? Tempo runs are steady effort runs [...]

Tempo runs are the middle child of speed workouts — often overshadowed by the traditional, reliable interval workouts and glossed over gramatically in favor of the giggles and jokes “farleks” inspire. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, let me back up a little: these are all forms of speed workouts, and all of [...]