You have to cut it short if you run too fast. Well you'll either fail (looks like having to stop or slow down before planned) not be ready to go for your next workout, or get injured. If none of those happen maybe you didn't run it too faster after all.
That over time you will run the same effort at faster paces.
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100%. T pace was never meant to be the same pace for ever.
Running "too fast" wont kill you, if it did there would be no HS runners. Its just a different stimulus and maybe not the ideal way to do it. If you want to run your T too fast just do some real VO2 intervals and get on with it.
At one point you will be working on V02max then eventually plateau! The idea is to keep progressing with LT workouts!
What do you mean by keep progressing?
Threshold pace is the long term development that you keep getting better from, training that pace makes your body get better and better at clearing lactic acid from your muscles. Running faster than that will get you race-ready for shorter distances with temporary short-term gains that won't keep stacking on themselves. That's why in general it's good to do threshold work for most of the year and you only do a lot of the faster race-specific things in the part of season that you're trying to run really fast. So if your coach is having you do short crazy fast paced workouts in February/March when you're trying to run fast in May/June your coach should reevaluate their training approach.
It depends... If you are only doing one "hard" workout per week, you'll probably be fine! If you are subscribing to 2-4 threshold sessions per week either in the form of double T or singles, it won't take long for your legs to feel heavy and flat. The benefit of threshold is being able to do high volumes of it frequently. Running too fast will jeapordize that.
It depends... If you are only doing one "hard" workout per week, you'll probably be fine! If you are subscribing to 2-4 threshold sessions per week either in the form of double T or singles, it won't take long for your legs to feel heavy and flat. The benefit of threshold is being able to do high volumes of it frequently. Running too fast will jeapordize that.
My thoughts too. The "magic" of threshold training is the high stimulus to fatigue ratio--ie you can do a lot of it (or fit it into a program with other challenging training) without digging a hole. If you're running low volume and/or don't have other intensity in the schedule, running "too fast" is probably better.