Tri Training Tips: How to Run a Fast 10k

Tri Training Tips is a weekly web feature to help USAT members take their training to the next level. A new training tip will be posted every Thursday, so check this page weekly.

October 23, 2008

How to Run a Fast 10k (Part II)
By Sergio Borges, USAT LIII Coach

In this series of training tips, I’ll be talking about a couple of the basic techniques that have been used by several short and long distance champions but are often
forgotten by most Elite and Age Group athletes.

• Train Concentration Skills: By shifting emphasis from aerobic levels of effort to form, repetition encourages you to develop greater levels of focus and concentration that will help you in racing and increase effectiveness of your workouts.
• Develop intuitive understanding: Over time, athletes who train with repetitions develop a keen ability to literally feel how they are doing on any given day.