5 Fresh Running Workouts To Build Speed This Summer
Maximize your form and fitness with these creative session ideas!
Summer is the perfect time to build speed as a runner. As it falls right between spring and fall marathon blocks, it’s a key opportunity to give your body a new training stimulus, temporarily lower your training volume, and rewire your mechanics. There also happens to be plenty of shorter races in the summer months to test you mentally and physically before getting back to marathon pace in the fall.
If you want to make this summer the summer of speed, follow only with these five 5k and 10k-specific workout ideas. Each one will challenge you around the threshold to V02max level to ensure your top-end fitness is where it needs to be. Not only with this type of work help to increase your speed endurance, but it will expose any weaknesses in your cadence, mechanics, and/or power. You can’t hide when you’re running at full tilt, but that’s exactly what is needed to build a strong foundation going into a fall of marathon or half marathon work!
Let’s dive in and add another gear to your engine this summer!
