There’s obviously one goal in any running event, get to the finish line as fast as you can. The old thinking was just pound out the miles and run hard all the time. But that training approach has changed over the past 10 years and there is more attention paid to intensity. Measuring Lactate Thresholds and training with heart rate monitors have become a focused approach that has yielded great results. Marcus O'Sullivan, four time Olympian and now coach at Villanova University, has used this has used this approach and brought home national championships.

Polar has individual units or the Team System, designed to meet your coaching needs. The downloadable units and the Team System allow you to analyze specific workouts and see trends or performance indicators that would ordinarily go unnoticed. With that information, you can make coaching decisions for each runner on your team and adjust the training according to their needs. Every runner on your team is an individual, and with Polar you can train them individually, within a team environment. Polar products make that possible.