Yeah, the level of precision for some of the recommended workouts is over the top. When I ran, there were days where I was laboring to run intervals, and others where the same workout felt easy. I remember a Kenyan saying that if they felt good, they ran fast.
Bingo. For me, anywhere in the 5:20–6:00 range can illicit the same sensation of "comfortably hard." If it's any slower than that, then I bail on the workout because I'm obviously very tired.
Yeah, the level of precision for some of the recommended workouts is over the top. When I ran, there were days where I was laboring to run intervals, and others where the same workout felt easy. I remember a Kenyan saying that if they felt good, they ran fast.
Bingo. For me, anywhere in the 5:20–6:00 range can illicit the same sensation of "comfortably hard." If it's any slower than that, then I bail on the workout because I'm obviously very tired.
I should add that the 5:20–6:00 range does not mean those are all equal for me all the time. On a good day, well rested, good weather I can run about 5:20 pace and it feels the about the same as 6:00 pace on a less good day, maybe bad weather, maybe I'm tired.
Run a race in the 5k to half marathon range and look at a few training calculators (Daniels, like Humphrey, tinman etc). Add like 5-10s/mi to be safe, especially if you raced in super shoes and great conditions
The Humphrey tables seem to work well for me and some others that I've recommended it to.
The Humphrey tables seem to work well for me and some others that I've recommended it to.
Yeah I really like the spread of different paces it gives compared to vdot. The easy pace range is bang on for me too, vdot is much too fast for daily runs personally, it almost exactly lines up with 'moderate' on the Humphrey calc. It's still a bit optimistic of my marathon pace given a 5k, but that's more of a "me problem" I think lol