.Hawks1Hayden credits hitting the track to some of his biggest ultramarathon wins.
at the World Mountain Running Championships in Patagonia, we sat down with Hawks to learn a bit more about his training mindset and regime. While he excels at 50K and 100K races, his career started with much shorter distances on the track—and frankly, it never fully left. Hawks does many of his hardest workouts with intervals on track ovals. He credits these workouts to some of his biggest wins.
With college PR’s of 13:51 in the 5K and 28:53 in the 10K, Hawks won All-American honors as one of the fastest track runners in the country. Despite transitioning to trails and ultimately to much longer distances, Hawks still runs multiple workouts each week on a track, an anomaly compared to some of his closest competitors. We spoke about why he sticks with fast ovals and what we all can learn from it.
, helping teach your body to work through the race and its varied profile. It helps me be strong on the flats as well as the climbs.The best way to get started with speed is simply to do strides. I do a lot of these myself and encourage my athletes [Hayden runs a personal coaching business called] to start with these. Strides are a simple way to build speed and running economy, and can be done after a run in a short time frame.
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