Heart rate and training zones - An article based on experience and hopefully helpful in you understanding your own heart rate training zones better. This is not a scientific article but more relating to experience while coaching a squad of up to 30 athletes, varying in ability from sub 40 minute 10km to 28 minutes for 10km. … [Read more...]
Racing her first 10k races
After the Copenhagen Marathon, MrsDuck prepared for a race through the streets of Ystad in the South of Sweden, some 60km from Malmo. The Wallanderloppet, is run over a distance of 6km and finishes at the town square. The race is normally held in July, and on this occasion the year was 2010. … [Read more...]
Intro to the athlete, MrsDuck
Following on from the series of posts written about the athlete AB, I shall now introduce you to the athlete known as MrsDuck. … [Read more...]
Rolling all the eggs into one basket
The route back from The Grand Hotel to Matagorda Now that we had achieved the summer goal of going sub 45 minutes for 10km, we needed to start turning our attention to being ready to switch to the marathon training which would occur 6 weeks before the race date of December 8th 2013. … [Read more...]
Breaks, Plans and ABnating
With the running of the sub 21 minute 5km, much had been achieved in giving AB the confidence in her ability, however there was still much to do, as you only as good as your last race, in the mind of many. … [Read more...]
The making of the athlete AB
After the 5km time-trial, the week before, we now prepared towards the 10km which would take place on the 20th July in Playa Blanca. … [Read more...]
Intro to the athlete AB
The end April this year; 2013, I approached a local athlete on the island of Lanzarote (and it is with her permission that I am writing this blog) with the intention of training her. One of the main ideas behind this, was that I knew my wife would be needing a training partner in the future. … [Read more...]
Farah loses to Bekele’s tactical nuance
One thing came out of today's GNR with Paula Radcliffe and her commentary, she is no doubt a great time-trialer but seemed to show she knows nothing about the tactical battles that take place at the top level amongst the men. … [Read more...]
sub 60 minute schedule added
Incredibly, after being involved in road running since 1982 and performance coaching since 1984, I finally have to admit that I was a touch of an elitist, and considered that everyone should be running sub 60 minutes for 10km. … [Read more...]
Thoughts behind the programs
This post has been moved from the forums so that we could refer users to this url when asking similar questions. … [Read more...]
