Jakob (4:40) wrote:
"This is a session that I'm not doing too often. It's difficult to kind of compare too much, just something that I try to avoid in general. Don't compare too much because you always have to hit the intensity and not be too hung up in the pace or whatever. I'm doing lactate measurements, heart rate and obviously the pace. I try to get the intensity, that's the most important part, so if I have to adjust the pace that's what I'm going to do."
If only every runner, or even just every coach, understood this then runners would be better off. Trying to hit certain arbitrary splits that you think you're supposed to is not the key to fitness. Running at the right intensity is, the pace is just a function of the intensity.