Running by the 80/20 rule. Train slower to race faster

Most amateur runners train incorrectly. Mat Fitzgerald shows how elite runners train, why they do so and why you need to train more slowly in order to compete faster.

Although this may seem contradictory to become a faster runner, you need to run slowly most of the time. The key difference between the runners that realized their potential, and those who did not do this are the volume of slow running. Modern studies of the best runners in the world are the first studies, within the framework of which there was access to real information on how such athletes train - showed that they spend about 80% of their training time with an intensity below the respiratory threshold, that is, they run at a pace that allows conduct a conversation. New studies also showed that lovers participating in competitions progress the fastest when they train are mostly easy