My 5k pr this spring is 14:30. I usually do my easy runs at about 8 min/mile pace. I'm not just talking about recovery runs; I pretty much do this pace for everything thats not a track workout. Should I be doing these runs faster to get more benefits?
Nah. Easy means easy.
Yeah now that I'm getting faster easy runs are getting slower.
Run faster when you feel good. You can probably go a lot faster and still easily recover from your workouts. I would expect speeding up your daily mileage to really help your fitness.
It shouldn't be too hard to adjust to faster than 8min pace. As long as your workouts are going fine I would say you should be running faster on most days. The obvious things you can do to get better are nice.
yes, it's too slow.
you're going to wind up like Mo Farah running 12:58 or whatever for 6th instead of winning world and og titles.
is it really worth it?
no way, man!
drop that sh!t to 6 mins and start winning titles!