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I've been running since i was a kid with no idea how to train. But i did my first race today 5 mile in 27 min and won and a guy approached me wearing a letsrun shirt asked me how do i train. I basically ran all my life never trained on a team, but i just answered i just run. Now that i visited this site im finally learning what intervals are and tryed them the other day 8 mile repeats with 2 min recovery after all the recoveries i was still breathing hard, throat hurt, and not fully recovered. I never worked this hard in my life. I quit at the 4th repeat. Am i doing them right? |
| t94belI |
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Yea. Next time try for 5. |
| Typical Mean Letsrunner |
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I'm pretty sure this never happened. |
| Im a noob |
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I see the people on this sight are not very bright people. |
| grammar Police |
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Dude read, write, arithmetic! |
| MatthewXCountry |
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you are likely a troll, but in case you are not, you aren't suppose to do repeats all out. You are suppose to do them at a target pace. The first one should feel easy, the middle ones should feel uncomfortable but not that painful. The last one should hurt, might even have to be close to all out, just to hit your target pace. However, you should always feel capable of going faster if you were racing the distance. My HS coach didn't know what he was doing and had us run all out on every repeat, our first mile would be nearly 2 minutes faster than our last one. It was just stupid. |
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He said he did 4x8 mile intervals... WAKE UP! |
| coach d |
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1/10 (he actually got one reasonable response) |
| the average male runner |
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He didn't do 8 mile repeats. He wanted to do 8 x mile, but stopped at 4 because he was going too hard. You're NOT supposed to go all out during intervals (except, in rare cases) - you should have a pre-determined pace to run them at. Depending on the rest, an 8 x mile workout should probably be done at 10k-HM pace. |
| ukathleticscoach |
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Well even though a troll it actually raises an interesting point as the is a trend in this site and the brojos of believing that intervals should be comfortable etc Doing all intevals in one set time are being comfortable are 2 different things I trained with some Ethiopians 12 x 400m in 60/61 with 45 secs jog recovery and sure you did not see looking knackered because they were so fit. But I reckon they were doing the session all out that those times were pretty much as fast as they could do In fact out of 10 only 4 completed the session. You can gues who was the first to drop out! Where there is a longer recovery there can be a tempation to race each one which you don't really want to do either |
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I still have a lets run tee shirt from 11 years ago. |
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Im not a troll but i was actually serious im 39 years old been running since i was 12. My school did not have any sports at all and i just ran everywhere all day because i was raised in the country and i continued to do that. And i just happened to see an event while coming from work and signed up had a great time and now i just want to do more races and get faster. -I dont believe in old age |
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You've been running for 27 years and you just won a 5 mile race in 27 minutes at age 39 and you don't know how to run intervals or about this site? |
| DocLove |
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'I dont believe in old age' Me neither those pensioners are all fakers |