The one thing that all runners have to do but at times dread the pain they have to endure. At times there seems to be no way around doing these long drawn out workouts. Sometimes you just have to say to yourself "there has to be a better way to get the same results". Now I'm not talking about magical work outs that don't hurt had you become extremely fast, I am talking about alternatives to some workouts that appear easier in some eyes. When you ever do a distance run and a funny conversation is sparked or having something to throw around it make things much easier to handle. Now why not through the same deal into doing workouts, but you might say its hard to talk and playing with objects can get dangerous, so i will give some examples.

With some workouts everyone is spreed pretty thin and you don't always have your team mates to rely on. Now one of the best answers for this is just doing a fart lek work out and always regroup. So some might say that can only work for some time when everyone breaks off. well at least for that first half you could take the workout to wooded area that loops or some were that is new but somewhat familiar so all the runners are confident were they are. yet they are seeing some new scenery to take some of their mind off of that pain. Once getting the majority of that workout out of the way you bring it back to the track to see the exact pace to build confidence in some runners. Now that is more team building that fun but it is somewhat distracting from the work put in. So lets give an example a fun work out.

 Now this work out has many different ways it can go so doesn't have to be exact. So to start things off everything for this work out is on the track and there are many variations of distances from 100 meters to 800 meters. Now the fun part about this is that you don't know exactly when each interval is or how much rest is in between. So this workout is called the "Card Game", so basically you will have the two sets of cards ones with rest time and the others with a distance. Usually there are are about ten to twelve each and the max amount of rest is two minutes and least is thirty seconds. So pretty simple from here just take turns flipping cards back and forth till you have a list of all the intervals and rest times. jot them all down and you have the workout of the day. This game may be fun but sometimes you may run into a 800 with 30 seconds rest afterwards then another 800, so it can get quite difficult. Oh and the last important thing is this workout should be around goal mile pace or if necessary two mile.

 So try these out for size there are plenty more in a compilation that I am working on so please continue reading to find more workout ideas.