Thursday, August 12, 2010

Slower Is Faster?

Interesting, from Running Times online

Magill on Masters: Slower is Faster

Slower gets us there faster

By Pete Magill

As featured in the Web Only issue of Running Times Magazine

We masters runners don’t ask for much.

All we want is the ability to train hard, race fast, dodge injury, behave like a bunch of college kids competing for conference championships and simultaneously juggle the responsibilities of career, family, social obligations and community service.

Oh, and we’d like it all now. Right now.

Ninety percent of masters runners who contract me about coaching do so within weeks of their next important race. They’re nervous. They’re out of shape. And they really want to run fast. When I explain that it takes months to build race-fitness, they invariably say, “Yeah, I understand that, but how fast can I get in two weeks?”

Read on here.

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