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Poster: beenthere
Subject: RE: My coach doesn't believe in thresholds and has us do only interval work. Is this normal for college?
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Senior runner wrote:

Honestly, it doesn't matter that much. This entire track season we've done 1 (one) tempo run that was 7 miles. We still have had 7 guys under 32 minutes in the 10k (which is awesome for a D3 team).

Would I be better with tempo runs? Maybe. I'm personally good at tempo runs, but only with others. I fall off pretty quick when I'm alone. In that case, I'm much better doing a 8x1200m workout alone at 5:30 pace with say 60 seconds of rest inbetween than struggling through a 8 mile tempo run that averages 5:50 or so


The track workout you are doing is pretty much THE SAME THING as a tempo run though. The OP is not doing anything like that. It doesn't matter if its one continuous tempo or intervals at tempo pace with short rest. They are both designed to do the same thing.

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