| TYPES OF TRAINING | ||||||||
| Training types are arranged by intesity from the easiest to hardest | ||||||||
| Bowerman | Recovery (Rec) | Pace Judgement | Enjoyment | Overdistance | Threshold | Date | Goal | |
| Benson | Recovery (Rec) | x | Endurance | Stamina | Economy | Speed | ||
| Carroll | Recovery (Rec) | Marathon (MP) | Fun/Easy | Long (L) | Tempo ™ | Cruise (C) | Date | Goal |
| Daniels | Recovery (Rec) | Marathon (MP) | Easy (E) | Long (L) | Tempo ™ | Cruise (C) | Intervals (I) | Repetition ® |
| * Warm-up | ||||||||
| Purely Recovery | Marathon | * Recovery | Skeletal and | Improve endurance by | Improve | Improve speed | ||
| Purpose | Post Race | Training only | * Warm-down | cardiac muscle | raising lactate threshold | VO2max | and running | |
| * Early Season | adaptation | economy | ||||||
| build-up | ||||||||
| 1 -2 sec | ||||||||
| 60% - 65% | The pace at | 70% - 75% | 80% - 88% | 95% - 100% | per 100m | |||
| Intensity | of VO2max | which you plan | of VO2max | of VO2max | of VO2max | faster than | ||
| to run your | "Conversational Pace" | "Comfortably hard pace" | 5K race pace | interval pace | ||||
| next Marathon | 16 sec per mile slower | or slightly | Whichever is | |||||
| than 10K race pace | slower | fastest | ||||||
| Duration | ||||||||
| of each | 20 - 45 minutes | 10 miles to | 20 - 60 minutes | 60 - 120 minutes | 20 minutes | 3 - 10 minutes | :30 sec - 5 min | :30 - :90 sec |
| work bout | 21/2 hours | |||||||
| 1 minute | ||||||||
| Recovery time | Recovery time | 1 to1 | 1 to 5 | |||||
| between work | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | may be | work/rest | work/rest |
| bouts | increased of | ratio | ratio | |||||
| decreased | ||||||||
| 5% | ||||||||
| Number of | 8% - 10% | of weekly | ||||||
| work bouts in | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | of weekly mileage | mileage | |
| one session | Not to exceed 10K per session | Not to exceed | ||||||
| 8K per session | ||||||||
| Different Coach's using different terms but basically meaning the same thing. Hopefully this will clear up any confusion you may have. | ||||||||
| What terms do I use? | ||||||||