Training notes

Training guides

Practical notes from Coach Travis Mahoney on structuring training, racing and recovery.

• 1500m

  1500m Training: How to Structure Your Season

  Build a 1500m season around your race calendar, training background and recovery, with foundation, specific and race phases.

• Mile

  How to Run a Faster Mile: A Coach’s Guide

  Improve your mile preparation through consistent aerobic running, purposeful faster work, recovery and deliberate race pacing.

• 800m

  High School 800m Training Guide

  Prepare high school 800m runners with speed, aerobic support, recovery and a season structure that fits team practices and meets.

• XC and 5000m

  Cross Country Training: Season Progression

  Structure cross country preparation around consistent running, hills, race-specific progression, recovery and your championship calendar.

• Training decisions

  Double Threshold Training for Middle Distance Runners

  Understand double threshold training, its workload and monitoring demands, and why copying elite volume is not a shortcut for middle-distance runners.

• Training conditions

  Heat-Adjusted Threshold Pace Explained

  Interpret heat-adjusted running pace estimates alongside effort, acclimation and safety, without treating a calculator as a threshold test.