High End Aerobic Runs?

well if you do enough of them, you will get faster.

u get used to finishing your runs at a very fast pace, thus mentally, in a race its just natural to increase the pace at the end of your race.

dfasdfaf wrote:

u get used to finishing your runs at a very fast pace, thus mentally, in a race its just natural to increase the pace at the end of your race.

I've never felt like this is the case. My motivation in a race comes almost 100% from how I'm feeling and how my place/time is looking. Closing normal runs or tempo runs very fast just doesn't hurt like the end of a race.

Just my experience, though.

I have to second that Scrib and say I agree with ya on that...I just read a script from the Canova thread that is locked on lactate threshold, and it seems that Tinman call these runs (from my minimal understanding) Aerobic Threshold Runs. Run these runs at a minute slower than 5k race pace. If this is the case, if you run these runs a minute slower than GOAL 5k race pace for a given number of weeks/months, does that mean you will eventually be able to race one minute faster than the pace of these Aerobic Threshold Runs? Hope that makes sense...

What's interesting is that I'm probably in about 15:50-16:05 5K (ROAD) shape right now, and I ran 10mi. this morning at 6:14 pace with some work, but I wasn't straining and racing with myself--just a strong, solid effort with the last 2.5 BEGINNING to hurt a bit--only like the last 3 minutes did I begin to feel like the effort was going from solid/smooth pace to having to work a bit. Really interesting I think...