Comments on: Training http://www.williamhathaway.com/wordpress/2007/10/28/training/ Tue, 11 May 2010 12:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: William Hathaway http://www.williamhathaway.com/wordpress/2007/10/28/training/comment-page-1/#comment-169 William Hathaway Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:14:29 +0000 http://williamhathaway.com/?p=72#comment-169 Marcus - thanks for the feedback, I'm interested in your thoughts on the Brain Training program once you've given it a chance. Nathan - I'm glad you'll be volunteering, it will be nice to see a few friendly faces during the race. I'm planning on coming down to see your 5M race on Saturday in York. Marcus – thanks for the feedback, I’m interested in your thoughts on the Brain Training program once you’ve given it a chance.

Nathan – I’m glad you’ll be volunteering, it will be nice to see a few friendly faces during the race. I’m planning on coming down to see your 5M race on Saturday in York.

]]> By: Nathan http://www.williamhathaway.com/wordpress/2007/10/28/training/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Nathan Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:58:23 +0000 http://williamhathaway.com/?p=72#comment-171 Good luck Bill! I'll be out there cheering for you as a volunteer. Good luck Bill! I’ll be out there cheering for you as a volunteer.

]]> By: Marcus http://www.williamhathaway.com/wordpress/2007/10/28/training/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Marcus Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:09:09 +0000 http://williamhathaway.com/?p=72#comment-170 Glad to see you've signed up for Harrisburg - should be fun, and I'm hoping for good weather. You'll find very quickly on the FIRST plan where your strengths and weaknesses are -- personally I was always comfortable with the long run paces but the tempos were rather harsh bordering on impossible for me... in my case I just played to my strengths and eased up on the tempo paces a bit. For my next plan, I'm going to find out if training to your strengths is better or focusing on your weaknesses Frankly, the key to getting better is regular tempo/speed workouts, in any form. I like the FIRST set-up because it's really time efficient and the bike riding makes recovery easier. I really like Fitzgerald's Brain Training program, but figure the time commitment compared to FIRST is at least 20% more, so that's a consideration, too. Glad to see you’ve signed up for Harrisburg – should be fun, and I’m hoping for good weather.

You’ll find very quickly on the FIRST plan where your strengths and weaknesses are — personally I was always comfortable with the long run paces but the tempos were rather harsh bordering on impossible for me… in my case I just played to my strengths and eased up on the tempo paces a bit.

For my next plan, I’m going to find out if training to your strengths is better or focusing on your weaknesses

Frankly, the key to getting better is regular tempo/speed workouts, in any form. I like the FIRST set-up because it’s really time efficient and the bike riding makes recovery easier. I really like Fitzgerald’s Brain Training program, but figure the time commitment compared to FIRST is at least 20% more, so that’s a consideration, too.

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