The Level of detail Rule The most effective training imitates the event for which you're training.This is the most important rule of training for any activity. If you want to run a 10-K at seven-minute-per-mile pace, you need to do somerunning at that pace. "Runners are best served by running at goal pace and in the expected(surrounding conditions) of that race," says Ann Snyder, Ph.D., director of the humanperformance lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.The Exception: It's (not having common sense/way too full of problems) to completely imitate/copy a race--especially longerdistances--in training because it would require extended recovery. So, when doing race-specific training, keep the total distance covered shorter than the goal race, or run at your race pace in shorter parts with rest breaks (period of time