Most days, I run 1.5 miles (3 miles there-and-back) from the station to work.

I’ve always seen this distance as too short to do anything ‘useful’ training-wise with. If I need to do a proper run I get off at a station further from work and run 5/7/9 miles or so.

Past day or so I’ve just been enjoying being able to run well again after a stupid calf injury, so I’ve been absolutely flogging it, just for the fun of going dead fast for a change.

This got me thinking – does anyone have any experience/knowledge about using these short 1.5-ers as useful training runs? If so, how? Or are they only ever going to be an improvement on getting the bus?