I wanted to leave you with one more workout for this series of articles.

This slight modification, like the other two, will help you improve your mile run time and keep things from getting boring.

The other two were pretty simple modifcations and this one's not that much more complicated. Let's get right into the modification.

You're going to be running intervals, but for two of those intervals you're going to run backwards!

Why run backwards?

There's one obvious benefit to running backwards: variety!

Bringing variety to your workouts will keep you from getting bored and will also help you make more progress. Variety isn't the only benefit though, here are some other reasons to run backwards: