Anyone using Daniels to train for a marathon? Do you do your T runs for the 20 minutes that he seems to prefer, or do you run longer runs at slower paces using his formula to adjust T? What's the sweet spot for varying run length and pace?
Anyone using Daniels to train for a marathon? Do you do your T runs for the 20 minutes that he seems to prefer, or do you run longer runs at slower paces using his formula to adjust T? What's the sweet spot for varying run length and pace?
Bueller? Anyone?
There is some related discussion about Daniels tempos in the "Stop using the word TEMPO" thread.
Generally speaking, I guess if someone is using Daniels, then they are only doing what Daniels said, i.e. 20 minute tempos at T pace.
If they start doing longer "steady state" runs at a slower pace, unless Daniels said to do it, then they are no longer using Daniels.
Not to sound like a smartass but have you even read the book?
It seems that if you are "using Daniels" you have, but your question is answered pretty explicitly in there. There is even a chart that says how to adjust the pace depending on how long you go. Just off the top of my head, 20 minutes at 10 mile race pace is equal to 60 minutes of marathon pace.
This thread on tempo running will be of great value to you.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&thread=248888
I don't believe the first edition discussed the runs longer than 20 minutes.
Here is a link to a Excel spreadsheet that will do the math for you for the longer tempos. It also has some other cool features.