My long run pace right now is ~9 minutes and I could hold that for maybe 15 miles if on a hypothetical flat-ish course. That's basically forever for me.
So if I had an easy pace run prescribed, I'd aim for 9 minute pace, but also not sweat it if I'm at like 9:15.
For example, Daniels' Threshold pace is the pace you can hold for 1h. What's the definition for Easy pace?
If you can hold it for an hour, why does he say that threshold runs should be 20 minutes? It is confusing.
T pace would be about an hour of running at race pace. T pace workouts are meant to provide a certain amount of stress and adaptation without being overtaxing. Your body can only handle so much stress.
E pace can't be defined by how long you can hold it because you should feel like you could hold it forever. Exactly how long you cold hold it would vary a lot from person to person. If you want physiological definitions you could probably say 65-75 percent of max HR. You could also measure lactate and set E pace somewhere before the first lactate threshold (LT1), which is roughly Daniels M pace.
My long run pace right now is ~9 minutes and I could hold that for maybe 15 miles if on a hypothetical flat-ish course. That's basically forever for me.
So if I had an easy pace run prescribed, I'd aim for 9 minute pace, but also not sweat it if I'm at like 9:15.
If it’s an easy pace, you shouldn’t be really aiming for anything.
Guys, I know all this about E pace. But when you use the calculator, it gives you a range of paces for E. I'm looking for the definition for this range.
Easy running is run at a very slow pace because of your current state of fitness or terrain and weather conditions. Think of Easy running as referring to an intensity that is “conversational” in nature, meaning, you’re able to carry on a normal conversation with a friend throughout the run. Easy runs do a great job of strengthening the heart muscle and improving the running muscle fibers’ job of providing energy for the muscles that are doing the work. Relative to a hard 100% effort, Easy runs are more in the range of 60-80% effort, and I don’t believe that it is necessary to be at least 60% as some days, or for some newer runners, less than 60% is OK. Easy runs include warm-up, recovery, easy-day runs and long runs. Try to keep your long runs from being longer than 25-30% of weekly mileage, or 150 minutes, whichever is the lesser amount."
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Guys, I know all this about E pace. But when you use the calculator, it gives you a range of paces for E. I'm looking for the definition for this range.
Because there’s a range of factors on weather, running surfaces, shoes, your emotions, are you sore, are you tired, do you feel great, did you recently eat burritos, etc. Why are you being a dolt about this?