The Runner's Journal
Why is your VO₂ max decreasing? Discover how heat, fatigue, detraining, weight, ageing, altitude and watch errors can make your score fall. Your watch gave you a VO₂ max of 52 last month. Today, it says 49. You have not stopped running. You may even be training more. Yet according to the number on your […]
Threshold running helps you hold a faster pace for longer. Discover how to find your ideal threshold pace and seven powerful workouts that build speed, stamina and race-day confidence. There is a pace between comfortable running and all-out intervals that many runners struggle to judge. Run too slowly and the session becomes another easy or […]
VO2 max for runners explained: learn what your score means, how accurate watch estimates are and how easy runs, intervals and recovery can improve it. VO₂ max is often treated as the ultimate score for running fitness. Watches display it, training apps track it and runners compare it – but the number is only useful […]