How best to run: on time or distance?

How do you run? You say to yourself: "Today is the 5 km"? Or simply timed 20 minutes and run until the time is over? I am sure that all different and everything is always asking themselves one question - whether I run and if I put the right goal?

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Studies show that we take the time and distance differently. When you see how many ran and how much you have left, the internal efforts are accelerating at the end. Reaction to time is different: you are distracted and constantly forced to look at your watch? Speed ​​is not conducive. It was found that easier for people to escape while maintaining the tempo (pace), but the faster you run through if you run a fixed distance. Both methods have the right to life, but it all depends on what the purpose of your run.

Running on Time

Harry Wilson, the coach of former world record holder in the women's 1 mile Steve Ovett, encouraged its athletes to train all winter in maintaining a certain running pace. Runners carefully listen to your body to know what rate they are actually able to make a required skill in sports race. They closely monitor their breathing and leg supporting state planned pace. In the women's time it is very important to maintaining the pace, just to feel their condition. At least once a month, test your ability to support yourself in some jogging pace. Use a watch or

Also, be aware that these workouts are good while recovering from injury. Your ego needs to run farther and faster, but the pace of limitations makes it possible not to listen to him and maintain a specific training plan. If you want to try to exceed the recovery plan, then go for a run in the forest or on an unfamiliar trail, on which you do not know the distance - the main thing is not to measure the distance. Then you will stop running as soon as it is requested body.

Running at a distance

With the advent of spring Wilson switches to a drill and a track at one fartlek a week. With the arrival of summer, all trainings are held on the track. Switching due to the fact that the runners now need to focus on maintaining the tempo of competitive distance. Line and the track layout allows precise control of yourself and activate the "finishing instincts" athletes.

Many runners fall into the trap of its ego accelerating at every finish of the track section. If you have a lot of forces that you allow yourself to acceleration of each circle, then just promote a pace that will support the next round. This is much better than a coward the whole range, and then triumphantly finish :)

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