Are we there, yet?
Hudson's training plans are quite demanding. The best thing about Hudson is his guidance on how to personalize training programs and adapt the workouts and schedule to your needs and how you respond to the training. From memory I think his plans focus on converging training paces, i.e. longer training runs get shorter and faster while intervals get longer and slower as both work toward training runs at goal race pace.
2024 Races:
03/09 - Livingston Oval Ultra 6-Hour, 22.88 miles
05/11 - D3 50K 05/25 - What the Duck 12-Hour
06/17 - 6 Days in the Dome 12-Hour.
I agree with this.
I've had what I consider very good results with Hudson and Hudson-like plans. The workouts towards the end of the plans are very race-specific (2x 4 miles at HMP, I think, is one example of an HM workout) but you get in a lot of short, fast stuff (8-10 second hill sprints) at the beginning of the plan so you don't miss out on the speed aspect. It's an approach that has worked well for me, but I haven't tried it for shorter stuff, only for HMs/ full marathons.
I'd definitely recommend the book; it's well-written and easy to understand, definitely not as complex as Daniels.
You mean you don't have to read it three times before the light goes on. lol Daniels was a tough study, but once you get it, you got it!
I recently ordered the Hansons marathon book so getting the Hudson and Pfitz books only makes sense.
No more marathons
FWIW - found this website that talks about a study on the relative merits of interval vs. tempo training for the 10k.
http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/10k-training-512
The 10 different workouts at the end of the article look interesting. Will experiment with throwing two of these a week into my training (once I get back into training - haven't run a step since Boston - damn chest cold}.
Boston 2014 - a 33 year journey
Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
He's a leaker!