Running for fitness - the website

helping you to run smarter

This website accompanies the book, Running for Fitness. Use these tools to help you to create your own training plan.

Whether you want to increase your fitness, lose weight, tackle stress, or run a little faster in races, training smarter will help you to get more from the effort you put in.

Updated with new age grading data - May 2006.

Getting started

First figure out your starting point. You need a measure of your fitness: ideally your VO2 Max, but if not, you can use your maximum heart rate. If you are training for a race, you can use that to calibrate your training too. ... [more]

Need some help?

Use the FAQs to find out more about the calculations. All the ideas here are explained in a non-technical way in the book Running for Fitness. If you want more reading, here are some good books on these topics.

Serpentine Running Club

Central London's Running Club is a friendly club for runners of all abilities, including absolute beginners. If you live in London, or are just visiting, come along. Check out our website at: www.serpentine.org.uk