How to Improve Your 1-Mile Race Time

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Tip 1 - How to Improve Your Mile Time

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by bluetrumpet 01 | permalink

Whether you're trying to improve your mile time to become your high school track team's MVP, or you're trying to improve that time so you can successfully run a local 5K, anyone at all can improve his or her mile time with considerable...
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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Improve-Your-Mile-Time ^[1]

Tip 2 - Take 2:00 Off Your PFT Mile

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Lawrence Moncrief | permalink

If you are a beginner, you should always ramp up distance, pace, and intensity over a six to eight week period.
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For further reading: http://www.military.com/military-fitness/running/improve-your-pft-mile-time ^[2]

Tip 3 - Training Plans: Run Your Fastest Mile Ever - Women's Running

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Ritch Williams | permalink

Start a new challenge by trying to break your own personal 1-mile record.

For further reading: http://womensrunning.competitor.com/2014/10/training-tips/training-plans-run-fastest-mile-ever_31511 ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to Run a Faster Mile - FitBodyHQ

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Alberto Urcelay | permalink

Want to run a faster mile? Here's what you've got to do... Read on for tips and techniques for getting your mile time down.

For further reading: http://www.fitbodyhq.com/cardio/how-to-run-a-faster-mile/ ^[4]

Tip 5 - How to Run a Faster Mile | LIVESTRONG.COM

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Lori Hamlin | permalink

When 25-year-old British medical student Roger Bannister barely broke the elusive four-minute mile barrier in 1954, he set the sports world on fire. Fast forward 56 years and former Moroccan runner Hicham El Guerrouj has the world record of 3:43. While breaking four minutes in the mile seems like a reach, most runners share the excitement of...

For further reading: http://www.livestrong.com/article/83489-run-faster-mile/ ^[5]

Tip 6 - The Magic Mile

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Alison Marquiss | permalink

When it comes to effective workouts, mile repeats are a classic and versatile training tool. Popularized back in the late 1970s by athletes such as Alberto Salazar, who ran them before winning his first New York City Marathon, the workout is enticing, in part, because of the distance itself. The mile, after all, lies at the very heart of the sport, as the unit from which all things running are measured—speed, daily distance, races, even lifetime achievement.

For further reading: http://www.runnersworld.com/workouts/magic-mile-repeats ^[6]