To Become a Faster Runner, You Need To Slow Down. Here’s Why—And How To Actually Do It – Well+Good
If you want to become a faster runner, you should try to run faster—right?
Wrong, as it turns out: Coaches generally suggest that around 80 percent of your training be at an easy, conversational pace—advice that can be surprisingly hard to follow as runners too often slip into working in the gray zone, meaning running at a pace that is too fast to let their bodies recover but too slow to actually build speed.
But as s…….