Just to maintain a weekly mileage load in singles. For instance, 5 x 1200m, followed by a 5-7 mile run easy. Will this create a positive physiological response?
Just to maintain a weekly mileage load in singles. For instance, 5 x 1200m, followed by a 5-7 mile run easy. Will this create a positive physiological response?
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just shut up and run.
If you're running the workout hard it might increase your recovery time to run that much afterwards.
[I assume you have a reason for sticking with singles and avoiding doubles, so won't get into that topic with you.]
As always, different things work for different people, but I think your approach of doing the faster stuff early in your training session can be very productive. Skill work should generally come early in a session (after a warmup); developing efficiency at a particular pace, and learning the "feel" of that pace, are both skills.
In addition, if you do any true-speed work (work at or near your top sprinting speed) or short hill bursts, that training stresses the neuromuscular system and should definitely be done while fresh. ...In which case, if you also want to get some mileage in during the session, it'll pretty much *have* to be afterwards!
I liked Kim Valentine's approach, which was *not* to just do a steady-paced easy run after the fast stuff. Instead, his athletes would start on their recovery run ASAP after the last rep--maybe a change of shoes and quick sip of water, but they basically got going right away, on what he called a "high aerobic" recovery run.
For the first minutes this high-aerobic run might not be much more than a jog, but as the runners recovered they would pick up the pace, so that this whole "after-run"--while avoiding an oxygen deficit--would still challenge the aerobic systems. Increasing the pace as you recover is really a mental habit, as much as anything, and at the end it can actually leave you feeling better than plain-jane "cooldown jog" might.
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Cliffnotes version: Yes, you can get a good increase in conditioning (aka "positive physiological response") by doing sessions like the ones described in the OP.
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thank you lease,
you answered my question along the lines i was hoping for. I do have a reason for sticking to singles and the only way to stay at high mileage throughout the week is to use this approach it seems. Good to know that the strategy is not counter-productive.