If you're keen to improve your running performance this year, it's worth adding tempo workouts to your regular training plan. Tempo running is described as a continuous run done at a sustained effort.

WHEN YOU FIRST get into running, your routine probably looks something like this: Lace up the best running shoes you own, hit a quick warmup, and then hit the road for a set time, distance, or route.

Runners throw around the term “tempo run” like confetti. It’s confusing, even for well seasoned athletes, because it’s not a cut-and-dried definition like a lactate threshold workout. Frequently, ...

When Alan Culpepper was one of best runners in the country, with an incredible range, going from 3:55.1 for the mile to 2:09:41 in the marathon, a workout called a “tempo run” was one of the mainstays ...

But if you feel confused by all the different types of runs, don’t know which runs are the most important and have no idea how to execute each workout properly, you’ve arrived at the right place. Here ...

Every solid training plan is compromised of a few different types of runs. This is to help add variation to your weeks and ensure you become fitter and faster by the end of the plan. While you’ve ...

Matthew Balzer is the owner of Race178, which puts on the Journal Jog, and Reno Running Company. The 52nd annual Journal Jog is Sunday, Aug. 27. The race begins at Reno High School shortly after 7 a.m ...