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What Pace Or Effort Should I Run Hill Repeats?

By VDOTO2-Author|2024-01-24T13:20:22-05:00August 17th, 2016|Ask A Coach Responses, Training tips|

We hear this question a lot from athletes since we have a clear purpose/intensity behind our main training types (Easy, Threshold, Marathon, Interval, Repetition, Fast Reps) but not for hill repeats. We see hill training as Repetition work but with added resistance. Just like Reps, hill repeats help improve speed and economy. In general, you […]

“What’s Different About Training In Kenya?”

By VDOTO2-Author|2024-01-23T12:51:12-05:00December 22nd, 2014|Training tips|

By Janet Bawcom It’s a question I get a lot. “What’s different about the training in Kenya?” Recent doping news aside, when I look deeper and give it some real thought, I see two things that really separate the training in Kenya from the training elsewhere: Hills and Fartleks. I’ll start with the hills,and my […]