Linking current research to running
By Nikki Reiter
You often hear that it’s important to warm up for a variety of reasons surrounding injury prevention and optimal performance. Have you ever wondered if your warmup is helping or hindering your performance? Are you doing too much that you’re wasting valuable energy? Or too little that you haven’t warmed up enough?
Today’s Ask a Coach question comes from Pat about the the purpose of post-run “strides.”
Question: Can The Run SMART Project do a video on strides? I’ve always been confused on the purpose of doing strides and the proper pace for them. I’m familiar with coach Jack Daniels’ training paces (Easy, Threshold, Interval, and Repetitions) but don’t know how strides fit in. Are they at Rep pace, but shorter distance? Thanks.
