Workout advice

Good advice from Weldon Johnson (co-founder of Letsrun.com) regarding workouts:

"For almost every workout, you should be finishing faster than you start, and you should be trying to find a relaxed rhythm not trying to necessarily run the set of intervals as fast as possible on that day. If you're going too hard early, you won't accomplish this. Running fast is a learned activity, and you don't learn how to do it by running too hard all the time, struggling in all your workouts. Most college runners, let me change that, most runners don't appreciate this fact. Instead of trying to relax and stay just under their threshold, they try and muscle through their intervals, struggling to complete the workout. Much of the effect is lost."

For the complete article, see ... http://www.letsrun.com/2006/collegesuck.php