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Too slow, anyone have any helpful tips?
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The Four mile track workout has worked for many military and short distance runners for years to get faster. The workout is basically interval training. Interval training means you run at a certain pace for a particular distance then increase the pace for a certain distance. The Four mile track workout is broken into 1/4 mile sprints and jogs and 1/8 mile sprints and jogs for a total of four miles. The workout goes as follows:

4 Mile Track Work
Jog - 1 mile in 7:00 - 8:00
Three sets of:
Sprint-1/4 mile as fast as you can
Jog - 1/4 mile in 1:45-2:00
Six sets of:
Sprint-1/8 mile
Jog - 1/8 mile 1:00

Do this workout without walking to rest. The only rest you will receive is during your slower jogging pace. Try to catch your breath while you jog. Have fun with this one it is tough.

Another good speed workout is called REPEATS. Simply run a certain distance as fast as you can a specified number of times. This time you get to walk to recover and catch your breath before the next sprint. You can try one of the following distances for a challenging workout:

MILE REPEATS - 1 mile x 3-4 (walk 1/2 mile in between) = 3-4 miles
1/2 MILE REPEATS - 1/2 mile x 6 (walk 1/4 mile in between) = 3 miles
1/4 MILE REPEATS - 1/4 mile repeats x 12 (walk 1/8 mile in between) = 3 miles
1/8 MILE REPEATS - 1/8 mile repeat x 16 (walk 100 yds in between) = 2 miles

Finally, if you have not had enough, you can try mixing shorter jogs and sprints together for a longer period of time. This type of training is great for building the speed and endurance needed for any of the PFTs or 5 or 10K races. I call them SPRINT / JOGS. Simply run about 50 yards as fast as you can then jog 50 yards fairly slow in order to catch your breath. I like doing this one where telephone poles line the road so I can just sprint form one telephone pole then jog to the next.

Sprint / Jogs
50 yd sprint / 50 yd jog
for 10, 20 , 30 minutes
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Interesting stuff, do they make that in a computer program? :lol:
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pop open task manager by right clicking on the task bar of your compy and select task manager.

Look on the bottom of the new window, how many processes are running?
I think we've established that "Ka Ka" and "Tukki Tukki" don't work.
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VW337 wrote:pop open task manager by right clicking on the task bar of your compy and select task manager.

Look on the bottom of the new window, how many processes are running?
69, and I'm running Vista. Is that too many?
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that sounds like a shit ton!

6 different windows open and I'm at 31 on XP
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Bfowler wrote:that sounds like a shit ton!

6 different windows open and I'm at 31 on XP
:( :( :( I have 2 windows open, both Firefox. :(
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pm'ing you now
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