From Chris Hoy to Ellen White, British Olympians tell you how to up your sporting game
Keely Hodgkinson, 800m silver medallist at Tokyo 2020
There is no magic way to get faster at running but there are a few things that beginners can do. The first is not to think only about going farther in distance, but also including interval or fartlek (literally, “speed play”) sessions, where you mix short periods of faster work with slower recoveries. So, say you run a 5km parkrun every Saturday; during the week, you might also do a longer run, an easier one, followed by an interval session where you go hard for a minute then jog or walk the next two.