8 Types of RunningOnline version Match the description with the correct type of running by Jean Cantero 1 Recovery Run 2 Base Run 3 Long Run 4 Progression Run 5 Fartlek Run 6 Hill Repeats 7 Tempo Run 8 Intervals are best done as the next run after a hard workout do as slowly as necessary undertaken at a runner’s natural pace stimulate big improvements in aerobic capacity, endurance, and running economy lasts long enough to leave a runner moderately to severely fatigued function is to increase raw endurance begins at a runner’s natural pace and ends with a faster segment intended to be moderately challenging mixes in intervals of varying duration or distance good way to begin the process of developing efficiency and fatigue resistance typically done at the end of the base-building period safe way to introduce harder high-intensity training a sustained effort at lactate threshold intensity serve to increase the speed you can sustain for a prolonged period repeated shorter segments of fast running separated by slow jogging or standing recoveries format enables a runner to pack more fast running into a single workout