Say you're training for a pursuit in about 8 weeks time. Your endurance base is so-so having had half the season out with injury, speed is improving and standing starts are shocking.
Do you go with the traditional put-in-as-many-endurance-miles-as-you-can theory? (As recommended by local coach)
Or, do you go with the theory that you're training for a 4 minute event, so you do short hard efforts? (as recommended by some online literature such as Peak Performance - http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0028.htm sums it up for swimmers)
