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Fast and Easy Lanes on the Track
Age 17 · Sports
A runner can change how long the hard effort lasts and how long the easy recovery lasts. Different lengths of effort, speed and recovery build endurance in different ways.
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In the picture
- Forward-leaning sprint: a short, hard effort at high speed
- Wristwatch: times the length of each hard effort and each recovery
- Orange cone: marks where a hard effort ends and recovery begins
- Walking recovery: slow, easy movement that settles the breathing before the next effort
Examples
- Six times 400 m fast with 90 seconds of walking between them.
- Alternating one minute hard and two minutes easy for twenty minutes.
Key takeaways
- The longer or faster the effort, the longer the recovery that follows it needs to be.
- Varying effort length, speed and recovery time is what makes a session build endurance.
Quiz: Fast and Easy Lanes on the Track (Age 17)
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If a hard effort is longer or faster, what kind of recovery should follow it?
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What makes an interval running session build endurance?
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What is the walking recovery meant to do between hard efforts?
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