Alberto salazaaar wrote:
let the tempo pace come to you wrote:
Just go out at a nice steady relaxed pace, do not look at the watch during the run.
Of course that will be easier and still a stimulus but wouldn’t toughen one as much as the faster tempo. Do you think AlSal is wrong and that his athletes would be better with slower tempos?
Alberto Salazar athletes are on drugs so . . .
Are you on drugs? wrote:
Alberto salazaaar wrote:
Of course that will be easier and still a stimulus but wouldn’t toughen one as much as the faster tempo. Do you think AlSal is wrong and that his athletes would be better with slower tempos?
Alberto Salazar athletes are on drugs so . . .
^^^^this X10000
I like the advice to do the tempos a bit slower than that. It just works better to go out a 45-60 secs per mile over 5K pace and gently progress from there...if feeling good. Otherwise, it starts to become an awful lot like a race.
Yeah only 15sec slower is crazy fast. Thats a race. The tempo run is usually my second workout of the week in the specific phase and I don’t view it as the hardest workout of the week. Better to be on the slower side to start at least.