Most runners have their standard lap, where you know every pebble, every blade of grass by heart. This lap is often between 8 - 12 kilometers long and is unfortunately too often unwound with a monotony of speed that is precise to the second. The training-effective stimulus literally falls by the wayside. In order to give you a bit of variety in your 10 km run, we have put together 7 variations that provide more training stimuli and thus improve your running performance.
For the pace shown, we have used a threshold pace of 5:00 min/km (WSA=competition-specific endurance or threshold pace, roughly equivalent to a 10km pace) to make the different intensities clear to you. You can easily determine your individual threshold performance with a 10 km form test (a fun run in your area or simply as an endurance run yourself).
Variation 1 - Progressive endurance run
5 km in 6:00 min
3 km in 5:30 minutes
1 km in 5:15 minutes
Run out 1 km easily
Variation 2 - endurance run: pace pyramid
Run in 1 km and integrate running ABCs
1 km in 6:00 min
1 km in 5:45 minutes
1 km in 5:30 minutes
1 km in 5:15 minutes
1 km in 5:00 min
1 km in 5:15 minutes
1 km in 5:30 minutes
1 km in 5:45 minutes
1 km in 6:00 min
Variation 3 - endurance run with progressive change of pace
walk in 2 km
5 min at 5:10 min/km
3 min easy trot
4 min at 5:00 min/km
3 min easy trot
3 min at 4:50 min/km
3 min easy trot
2 min at 4:40 min/km
Then run out easily
Variation 4 - Tempo intervals in the threshold area
Walk in 2 kilometers
3 repetitions:
1 km in 4:50 minutes
1 km easy trot
Thereafter:
Run out 2 km easily
Variation 5 - endurance run with hill intervals in the development area
Run in 2-3 km (10-15 min).
4-6 repetitions:
1 min mountain interval (submax. workload)
2 min easy trot
Thereafter:
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Variation 6 - Track Training with Intervals
run in 10 min
10 min run ABC
3 series:
4x200m @4:30 + 200m easy trot
Thereafter:
3km @5:30
Leak loose
Variation 7 - endurance run (form test/determination WSA)
walk in 2 km
5 km test run (WSA)
Run out easily for 2-3 km
Happy running!