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Posts Tagged ‘tempo’


This Week Last Year: Tempo Runs and Oscar Pistorius

By on Saturday, May 31st, 2008 | No Comments

This week last year I wrote the counterpoint to my intervals FAQ by describing answering questions about tempo runs. The tempo run is not a very well defined term and can mean different things to different people, so sometimes it helps to have a definition of what somebody means when they are talking about them [...]

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Last Week Last Year: Doping Charges, Playing Chicken, and Workout Types

By on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 | No Comments

Once again, I seemed to miss a week for looking back. Last week last year was busy, with quite a few news notes, training tips, and discussions on research findings. I discussed some research on the merits of tempo workouts vs. interval workouts. Personally, I prefer a good mix of different types of workouts in [...]

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Run to Win in 2007

By on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 | 4 Comments

2007 has been a really busy year here at Run to Win. The website has really grown. I wrote more this year than I did last year, and received about half again as many comments and trackbacks. More than twice as many people visited me this year than did in 2006, and there are about [...]

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What is a tempo run?

By on Monday, May 28th, 2007 | 10 Comments

In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about timeless exercises in different disciplines throughout the month of May. This week I would like to talk about another of important type of workout for any competitive runner. What is a tempo run? A tempo run, according to [...]

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Which is better, tempo training or interval workouts?

By on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 | 9 Comments

Which type of workout is going to produce better results, tempo training or intervals? According to research done by Peter Snell (Olympic sprinter of 1960 and 1964) at the University of Texas Southwestern Human Performance Center, priority should be given to interval training. His research consisted of comparing performance gains between two control groups of [...]

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