lostart wrote:
I was amazed at how fellow run clubbers during a group run couldn't figure out why I was stopping at certain intervals throughout the course. They were genuinely concerned. Speed work, interval, and multi-pace training is foreign to them. Training at "race pace" doesn't make sense when their race pace is their everyday training pace.
I am more amazed how clueless prima donna runners can be when they make plans to do a general training run with other runners and then get pissed off when everyone continues jogging while they take a "recovery interval".
A group run is a social run (unless everyone else wants to do a 24:00 four mile tempo run).
Meeting at the track for intervals is speedwork.
Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em. A group run ain't a speed session newbie.