I’ve seen a couple people mention that having short 10-15 second surges during your long run can have benefits like teaching you how to surge during a race and building muscle tension among other things. Wanted to see what others thought of it.
I’ve seen a couple people mention that having short 10-15 second surges during your long run can have benefits like teaching you how to surge during a race and building muscle tension among other things. Wanted to see what others thought of it.
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I'm sure this may work, I've found fast finish long runs to be more effective(closing the last mile HARD). Or just do some more longer fartlek workouts. Which is basically what you just mentioned, but I would make it longer than 10-15seconds.
Surgio wrote:
I’ve seen a couple people mention that having short 10-15 second surges during your long run can have benefits like teaching you how to surge during a race and building muscle tension among other things. Wanted to see what others thought of it.
Search for "Bill Squires marathon training".
If you feel good go for it!
I love progressive runs. Start at something like 745-8 and work my way down to whatever shape I'm in.
Some days if I'm feeling good or shitty I'll just do a fartlek my last mile
30 second sprint minute recovery. Mix it up