I guess I've never done a tempo run in my life considering all my long runs are at around 7:00 pace. I've been doing okay for myself without tempo runs 4:33 - 16 yr old , but what training benefits will tempos give me?
I guess I've never done a tempo run in my life considering all my long runs are at around 7:00 pace. I've been doing okay for myself without tempo runs 4:33 - 16 yr old , but what training benefits will tempos give me?
What pace do you run your other runs? How do you know you have not run tempo runs if you don't know what they are?
In general terms....a tempo run is a run that is harder than your normal pace.
You have likely been doing tempo runs without knowing it.
When I was in high school most of my runs were in the 6:40-7:00 range. Every now and again we would push each other and I'd be running 6:00-6:20 by the end of the run. In general terms...that is a tempo run.
In specific terms....it depends on who you ask and if you believe in a true anaerobic threshold. Will the specific tempo run help you? It might. Will it help you more than those run to the barn natural runs that turn into tempo runs during the summer/winter? That's debatable.
Alan
Basically it is to test your racing speed by running at almost your best pace for racing. It enables you to see if your recovery is improving as well as your your times. Pushes you to go fast and test your fitness/stamina.
no, neither of those definitions are correct
a tempo run is a fast but relaxed run that you do at a pace you could sustain for an hour (if you had to)
. . . right out of the JD book
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I guess I've never done a tempo run in my life considering all my long runs are at around 7:00 pace. I've been doing okay for myself without tempo runs 4:33 - 16 yr old , but what training benefits will tempos give me?
Tempo runs will help you be more able to hold faster paces for longer periods of time. There are many different ways to do them. Typically, people will run different distances at, as one poster mentioned, paces similar to a pace they could hold in a 1 hour race. That is the fastest most consider to still fall into the category of a "tempo" run. On the slow end, many consider the pace you could average for an all out 2 hour 20 minute run to be the slowest pace for "tempo" runs. Anywhere between these two paces still falls into tempo ranges, but, the length of the tempo run will vary depending on whether you run near the fast end of the "tempo" run spectrum (the 1 hour race pace) or the slow end (the 2:20 mark). Also understand, tempo runs are only one piece of the puzzle. Sometimes folks start thinking one training element (mile pace, 5k pace, tempo pace, marathon pace, etc) is the secret. A well-balanced plan contains several different elements and not just one piece of the puzzle.
Have you ever used the internet before today?
Try a google search
http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=5615&PageNum=1
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-267--11909-0,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_training
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/union/sports/crosscountry/training/temporun.html
http://www.duathlon.com/articles/3218
If that doesn't work for you. You will have to wait until tomorrow when the library opens back up.
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