Running workouts

Running workouts

Every running session we prescribe — easy runs, long runs, tempo, intervals, hills, sprints. Purpose, execution, common mistakes.

14 entries

Easy Run: The Foundation of Marathon Training

Understanding the most important workout in your training plan and why running slow helps you race fast.

6 min read

Fartlek Run: Speed Play

The unstructured workout that builds pace variability, aerobic versatility, and the ability to change gears on feel.

5 min read

Hill Repeats: Nature's Weight Room

How uphill running builds leg strength, improves form, and delivers high-quality work with less impact than any flat workout.

5 min read

Hill Sprints: Maximum Power, Minimum Risk

How brief, all-out efforts on a steep hill build explosive strength, tendon resilience, and neuromuscular power with almost no injury risk.

4 min read

Long Intervals: Building the Aerobic Ceiling

How 3 to 5 minute repeats at high aerobic intensity accumulate the time near VO2max that raises your performance ceiling.

6 min read

Long Run: The Workout That Can't Be Faked

Why the weekly long run is the centrepiece of marathon training and what it teaches your body that nothing else can.

7 min read

Marathon Pace Run: Race Rehearsal

How running at your target race pace builds the specific fitness, pacing sense, and confidence you need for 42.2 kilometres.

6 min read

Progression Run: The Patience Workout

How starting slow and finishing strong trains the discipline, fatigue resistance, and pacing sense that marathoners need most.

5 min read

Recovery Run: The Art of Doing Less

How gentle recovery runs help your body absorb the benefits of harder training while keeping your aerobic system active.

5 min read

Short Intervals: Where VO2max Meets Speed

How 90-second to 3-minute repeats blend aerobic ceiling work with speed development and fast-twitch fibre recruitment.

5 min read

Sprints: Top-End Speed for Experienced Runners

How flat, near-maximal speed work develops raw neuromuscular power and running economy beyond what strides and hill sprints provide.

4 min read

Steady-State Run: The Deliberate Middle Ground

How to use the pace between easy and threshold on purpose, and why doing it accidentally is one of training's most common traps.

5 min read

Tempo Run: Learning to Hold the Line

How continuous running at lactate threshold builds the sustainable speed that defines marathon performance.

6 min read

Threshold Intervals: More Time at Threshold, Less Suffering

How breaking threshold effort into repeats with short recovery accumulates more quality minutes than a continuous tempo run.

5 min read