From rmg3@access5.digex.net Wed Apr 30 12:22:18 EDT 1997

In article <8AC4DE3F1924BF3F.9790785CCC7F3D80.C8B6D6E75307942A@library-proxy.airnews.net>,
Mike Tennent  wrote:
>hhm@ihgp2.ih.lucent.com (-Mayo,H.H.) wrote:
>
>
>Actually, a 10% increase in speed is a big jump even as a long term
>goal. 

  As a long term goal (certainly not a weekly goal), 10% isn't too
unreasonable if you're not already in top condition.  That was the
order of improvement in the distance runners 800 m times from beginning
to end of season when I ran track.  

  More recently, from mid February to mid April, I dropped about 15% 
off my 5k time.  Of course, much of the difference was that in Feb, I 
walked a lap of the 5k, and in April, I didn't.  Still in the realm of 
not fully in condition, I took 15 seconds off the mile on consecutive 
days last fall.  (Not 10%, but nontrivial.)

  As general advice, 

>Rather than set an overall specific time goal, I'd suggest just
>generally working on increasing the quality of your individual
>workouts and see how it goes. 

  Is what I've been doing.  Seems to work fine, including avoiding
injury.

-- 
Robert Grumbine rmg3@access.digex.net
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too much 
evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than they 
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New Sciences