Riccardo Ricco wrote:
If you can feel lactate accumulate, why not use feeling as the main indicator to guide workouts and racing? Everyone is talking about lactate, HR and paces, but feeling should be the main indicator (maybe in combination with the quantitative indicators). I understand mainly relaying on lactate, HR or paces in the begging, but someone doing the same workouts week in and week out should be able to feel if the pace is correct or not. Same thing with races. I have not run a marathon, so I will not comment on it, but I legitimately do not understand how people blow up in shorter races. You should be able to feel when you're red lining after 2k of a 10k race.
Red lining at 2k is not why people blow up. You can go out hard and it be totally fine in a 10k, way beyond that. That's not how blowing up works. Agree with a post further up, the book communicates pacing insanely well and I would highly recommend you buy a copy.
The entire book is laid out so we can think for ourselves and move away from all the bad habits we have picked up over the years and train a bit more optimally to make use of our precious time.
It's a really engaging book and right up there with the best running books I've ever read. If anything, it's given me so much to think for myself that I doubt I'll ever use a coaching service again.