From Running Times online, regardless if this article is meant for High School runners, the idea is the same among all runners.
Tips for Training Through the Winter
It might be your offseason, but use the winter to improve your fitness for the spring
By Jonathan Beverly
As featured in the Web Only issue of Running Times Magazine
After following detailed plans during the fall, many runners take a more relaxed approach to winter. Just getting in miles now and then, however, won’t make you ready to start an aggressive training program in the spring — you’ll have to train to be able to train, delaying and limiting your spring goals. You need not, however, follow a rigid plan all winter. Just make sure you get in key elements regularly, elements that will build fitness, flexibility and strength and, perhaps, make training more fun than just logging easy miles day after day.
Below is a summary I sent to high school kids I help coach. It will work equally well for older runners looking to maintain fitness and build toward more audacious goals in the spring. This is essentially how I train when I am not working toward a specific race.
Read on here.
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