I was scheduled to do 5miles at half marathon pace. I did not feel great beforehand so spontaneously started out at marathon pace and steadily cut it down and reached 10k pace at the end. Overall, ran the entire thing a bit slower on average than HM pace. But wow did that feel easy. I found it much easier than running it steady.
What does this mean?
double rainbow!!! all da way across the sky. what does this mean?
Always warm up with slower running at your easy pace (certainly slower than marathon pace)for at least 15-20 mins before tempo runs.
Easy running, strides, rest a few mins, then do tempo pace
OR
Easy running, gradually picking up the pace until you hit the target pace for the day.
You'll almost never feel good jumping straight into HM pace so what this "means" is that you had a normal experience.
Sorry. I did a 2 mile warmup, stopped, did some strides, and felt like it was gonna be a bad day. So i then started the 5 mile tempo run a bit slower than i planned and just picked it up graduslly and felt fantastic the last 2 miles.
My question is: does running it like the way i described different in terms of training benefit from running it steady?
Ah.
No, I think you're getting a very similar benefit either way though physio-experts are of course welcome to correct me.