EV3 on my phone wrote:
Letsdance wrote:
That’s the thing Americans think they need to run “threshold” work rate at 88%. Really it’s a range of 80-88%. It’s much easier to get large volumes at 80-85%. Either through steady state runs or tempo intervals.
Daniels 20 minutes tempo at one hour race pace is garbage. The best world class runners simply aren’t doing it. It’s better to do a long run at 80% like East Africans do or large volume short intervals at 85% like the Norwegians.
Norwegian Stephen Seiler‘s work basically says this emphasis on threshold is a waste of time.
Clearly there are a bunch of lurking variables at play here to determine the optimal system for each individual.
Any more info of Seiler and why this would be a waste of time?
Additional question: why does altitude mix exceptionally well with treshold training to the point where Bakken specifically pushes that point?