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FLAT TERRAIN
Strategy
Dear Coach Ed,As a runner who trains and races primarily on very hilly terrain, I've found that I don't seem to race well on flat cross-country courses. How should my race strategy change when I run on flat courses? Matthew Matthew, With the type of training you are accustomed to, you are probably a strength runner. When it comes to flat courses you have no place to use that strength, so you can use your strength as speed and take the race out right from the start. You know you are going to slow near the end so you have to build a good lead. During the race don't surge. Run strong, steady, and fast. You have to tire the legs of those guys who what to sit and kick. In the end it will be a matter of who slows the least. It's a hard way to win a race but if you have confidence in your strength running, go for it! Coach Ed
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Ed Poirier, "Coach Ed", recently was invited by the United States Olympic
committee to attend a workshop and training seminar at the Olympic training
center in California. 