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Lead Stories: Friday, December 5, 2008

Original Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon Begins a New Decade in San Diego

Posted January 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 AM by Jeanie Rebb

Section: News & Results, Marathons

On Sunday, June 1, 2008, the original Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego begins a new decade as one of the world’s premiere marathons. The event is known as a 26.2-mile block party with a live band at every mile along the course, hundreds of cheerleaders, themed water stations and a post-race concert, which featured SEAL in 2007.

Now is the time to set training plans and begin preparing for the entertaining fitness experience. For 20,000 runners and walkers, race weekend offers a unique opportunity to take an active vacation, accomplish personal goals, team up with friends and family, raise funds for charity or race like the King.
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Yasso 800’s:
Training Tool or Test?

Posted May 4th, 2007 at 6:03 PM by Jim Fortner

Section: Running & Training, Training Tips

Jim Fortner is a weekly, guest contributor. Make sure to also check out his own personal running and advice site: “Jim2’s Running Page”.

Yasso 800’s work best for the purpose for which Bart Yasso intended them. That isn’t so much as a training method, but as a test tool to verify one’s specific marathon goal. (However, it isn’t the only test that should be used.) Specifically, if you can’t complete 10×800 at “Yasso pace”, then you probably can’t run your marathon goal. On the other hand, just because you can complete 10×800 at Yasso pace …. or faster …. doesn’t necessarily mean that you are fully prepared for your marathon goal.

Achieving a particular marathon goal requires adequate endurance, anaerobic threshold (AT), aerobic capacity (VO2max), running economy, and running strength. Endurance comes from total mileage and long runs. (The others are developed through speed work, hill running, weight training and short distance racing.)
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