Donovan Rebbechi said:Wouldn't worry if you're doing the easy runs "too slowly". The author is
more concerned about people trying to do their training runs too fast.
Yep.
Quoted message said:As an aside, I often run a little slower than the recommended paces Daniels
gives. Steve Common usually runs quite a lot slower.
Maybe something to do with age. A quickish runner (1h15 HM) from our
club said to me the other day, on the eve of his 50th
"With time, training becomes not so much a question of doing all the
hard sessions required by a schedule, as doing the few hard sessions
which you can find time for among all the recovery runs"
From results in my peak period, fall 2002, vdot was 57.51. That gives a
R pace 200m reps = 38"60 --> Used to do 36-37" (but that is >> vVo2max)
E/L pace = 07'21"/mile --> My long run/base endurance was around
7'55-8'/mile pace, but about 50% of my running time (all runs except
intervals, threshold and long run) was at nearer 9'/mile pace for a 2h55
marathon target.
At one stage I had convinced myself that I could do all those recovery
runs at base endurance pace and it nearly knobbled my season. Thanks
(again) to Doug who noticed the trend, through the training week thread,
and gave me a "heads-up".
Moral : running slow enough is harder than running too fast.
