Tag Archives: Pacing

What time can I run for my marathon?

What time can I run for my marathon?

This is the million-dollar question isn’t it? Whether you’re experienced or brand new to the marathon, it will likely play on your mind unless you are one of the lucky minority who sets this question aside and simply says ‘I’ll run to feel this time and see where I end up’. The latter can be…

Rate of perceived effort (RPE)

Rate of perceived effort (RPE)

Rate of perceived effort (or exertion) simply provides a subjective way for you to describe how hard you would rate a given workout after having performed it or, sometimes such as during exercise tests, during the actual workout itself. The system was first popularised by my namesake Dr. Borg (no relation) who discovered that a…

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