Training with no continuous runs, all intervals

Hilarious post, and the mass downvotes just make it much better.

There is a method which is called Easy Intervall Method (EIM). Threads are here on this board.

If you were coming back from, say, a tendon injury in which continuous running aggravates the tendon, then all intervals should probably be a good way to go. Some days would be slower intervals … But breaking up the runs might be beneficial. Slow jogging between intervals should also be avoided, as it would aggravate the tendon as well. Anyway, we’re talking rehab here.

Come on, man! That's funny!

Really? It's the centerpiece of interval training. It really is part of the conversation and would put everyone on the same "page", so to speak.

Maybe leave out the sarcasm. But wouldn't people who enjoy talking about training programs like to know this?

Training with few or even no continuous runs was in vogue for 10k and down in the 1960s and earlier. This method fell out of favor because the athletes running continuously started beating the interval only guys most of the time. Intervals only also is a great way to get injured - if you don't you'll start hating running probably as you'll never be recovered.

This sounds like I training plan I could get into. When do we start, Coach?

Or you could just do threshold all the time with 1 min jog rest between reps, so you're both running continuously but also not doing a continuous run. jog rest is better than other rest anyways

Well to be fair this entire thread is probably based on sarcasm haha, so don't be so surprised. Highly doubt someone who doesn't know what an interval is would end up here anyways. Lol.

Contact the best coach on LRC. JS knows everything about both low and high mileage training.

Coming back from surgery I was forced into run/walk intervals for a few months. I ended up doing most of the on segments at tempo pace. I only had a week or two of continuous running before a turkey trot I signed up for and did surprisingly well considering I'd run more than 3 miles only a handful of times in the previous 10 months. That worked on 3-4 days per week. If you tried to run 7 days a week like that, you'd probably end up hurt.

Yeah. Dontcha just hate it when someone points out your basic errors? So annoying and unnecessary.

It isn't an error, you're just being a smartass purist. As it turns out language and the meaning of words can evolve over time, unless you still adhere to the meaning of 14th century English?

Yeah. Let's go back to the Dark Ages of stupidity and superstition. Brilliant plan donkeybrained. Keep the masses in line.

Or you could train like Mark Nenow and do no intervals. Just run twice per day for an hour total with a long run. Something like 7/13 and then 20. Just run as you feel as you get into shape, and your pace will get consistently faster. Maybe push some hills. Dude set the AR at 27:20 doing this training. Of course, he might’ve been under 27:00 with interval training. Certainly he would’ve been close with the new bouncy shoes.

I know that it can work, and to each his own, but honestly, that sounds so so so so boring. 60x400? Why not just hit the road or bike path or trail?

Now if the track is "your thing" then yeah.. go with that, or treadmill or whatever.. but one thing I like about running is mixing it up. The activity is repetitive enough already, why not do a few days out on a trail and a few on the track a few inside on a treadmill a few runs through town, etc.?

Modern GPS watches allow you to do these sorts of workouts away from the track. Doing a Zatopek styled workout like 40 x 400 with 400 R (reps at marathon pace, recovery at daily easy run pace) could be very effective alternative to plodding long runs for some athletes.

I think most of us feel that running on roads or trails is lot more pleasant than running on a track. But you don't need a track to run intervals. A session where you run for a particular time and have a particular length recovery is an interval session. Even fartlek in its pure original and unstructured form is an interval session.