Easy days super easy, for time, no GPS, no worrying about pace, is key to nailing workouts and progressing while feeling good.
Easy days super easy, for time, no GPS, no worrying about pace, is key to nailing workouts and progressing while feeling good.
True Believer wrote:
Easy days super easy, for time, no GPS, no worrying about pace, is key to nailing workouts and progressing while feeling good.
Correct except I use the GPS to keep me going slow enough. I monitor my pace per mile to keep it at the easy run pace otherwise I'd be going too fast.
Had a friend run with Morcelli on one of his easy days. He said it was painfully slow!
Was your friend able to confirm or comment on the pace? Imagine that, jogging along, passing by and scoffing at a skinny little runner who you just know you would beat in a race...except it is really just one of the best runners the world has seen jogging along painfully slow and without ego.
Those two names should not be used in the same sentence.
The Animal Within wrote:
Those two names should not be used in the same sentence.
Lol yes
Actually they do, and actually even magnify a secondary point. That point being that a range of athletes, from the elites to the sub-elite, both working to run and race their best can still excel by means of the same principles. If an elite runner, one of a handful in terms of capability and performance feels the need to fully ensure recovery based upon very easy runs, it supports the sub-elite very much likely needing to do the same.
So HS girls should run 12-15 min pace? Yikes!
Run as slow as you want on your easy days but if you run too often so slow you are biomechanically inefficient you'll teach your body bad habits that will come out when you are fatigued late in races and workouts.