My Thousand Mile Year » What Is…? http://mythousandmileyear.com Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:18:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Wordless Wednesdayhttp://mythousandmileyear.com/2011/05/18/wordless-wednesday/ http://mythousandmileyear.com/2011/05/18/wordless-wednesday/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 13:13:01 +0000 Amy http://mythousandmileyear.com/?p=1633

 

 

 

 

 

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Endeavoring to bring some focus back to the blog, I’ll be giving a beginning crash course on some basic running terminology over the next few weeks. If you’re not a beginner, it will probably bore you to death!

Today, since I ran one: Tempo Runs.

A tempo run is a continuous pace at 90% of maximum heart rate, which corresponds to a speed that’s maybe just a little bit slower than your race pace for a short run, or at your race pace for a longer run.

From what I can tell, 10 minutes, what I did today, is a little short to be considered a real tempo run. Twenty minutes seems to be more common.

Why would you do one? To improve cardiovascular health. I imagine it’s gotta help improve your pace as well.

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