We live in an era in which gadgets measure your heart rate, cadence, blood sugar levels and other metrics, but here’s a refreshingly back-to-basics way of gauging your effort.
A new study in the Queen's University Belfast prescribes a twist on the ‘Talk Test’ as a way to work out if you’re pushing yourself hard enough.
How to know if you're doing your tempo run too slow
During your next tempo or threshold run – an effort of 7.8 out of 10 – try counting to 30 at ‘a conversation pace and volume’. If you can do it comfortably, speed up until it becomes difficult.
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What pace should you be doing your tempo runs at?
To work out what pace you should be doing your different training runs at, use our training pace calculator. It's very simple to use, just tap in a recent race time and press 'calculate'.
How to tempo
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