if so, were your tempos slower than you think they would have been with strides? I haven't done any strides/fast running in 4 months due to some knee issues. the fastest I've run was a 5:24 average 6 mile tempo run. would it be faster if I had done strides the last couple of months or is this only relevant for faster workouts?
When you go out and try run an all out 1500 or 800 that is when you're gonna wish you did strides. Use ya speed (or maintain) or lose it!
Lots of people have done base training without strides or tempo runs. And if your'e doing base training and doing tempo like things you shouldn't worry about how fast they are. You're looking for a bit more effort than you're doing on easier runs.
thank you. but still, would my training paces be quicker with strides?
Doing strides might slightly change the pace of your faster workouts if you were in the first couple of years of training or if you do so many strides that they become something else.
I would guess that by the time you can run 5:24 pace for 6 miles as a training run, no, your won't know if you are or are not doing a few strides a few days per week until you try to run faster than 5k pace, maybe even faster than 3k pace.
stridesinbase wrote:
thank you. but still, would my training paces be quicker with strides?
I don't think it's likely. But you can't ever know about these things because doing one thing eliminates the possibility of doing the other things. Mostly your paces get faster because you adapt to what you're doing. Over the years my typical pace went from 7:30-8:00 to a few seconds either way of 6:00. I never did strides. I don't think they'd been invented in those days. But I have no way of knowing what would have happened if they had been invented and I did them.
HRE, wasn't 6:00 extremely close to your marathon pace, if I recall correctly?
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