Slippyslappy wrote:
The track coach at my high school has both the sprinters and mid-distance runners do plenty of workouts where you have walking recovery. Example:600, 500, 400, 300, 200 walk what you run so walking a 600 would be part of the workout. I don't understand how this makes any sense it's certainly more than full recovery for each interval and it's just boring. Are their any benefits to this that I don't know about?
It's a reasonable way to create a measured period of recovery without actually timing it; you can then cut down on the distance walked to reduce recovery time, or have the runners jog part of all of the distance, etc. Running, walking and standing between reps are all used; Seb Coe used to stand between some of his reps, for example.
Obviously, walking the same distance that you ran is a long recovery period, but I can't comment on whether I think it is a good or bad approach without knowing more. Perhaps the reps are very fast, or perhaps he or she intends to gradually cut down recovery time/distance and is using this as an easy intro to interval training...