Isn't it a progression run, rather than a tempo run?
A tempo run, as far as I know, is run at your LT (one-hour race pace) pace for around 20-30 minutes.
Isn't it a progression run, rather than a tempo run?
A tempo run, as far as I know, is run at your LT (one-hour race pace) pace for around 20-30 minutes.
Anyway, 3 tempo runs are way too much.
According to Jack Daniels, you should not run at your LT pace for more than 10% of your weekly mileage.
Kenyan teens do up to 4 a week, Seb Coe did up to 5 a week, both with several other workouts on top of this. Seems to have worked pretty well for them.
What? Invigorated...every time I am doing a tempo run, I would rather be dead.
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What? Invigorated...every time I am doing a tempo run, I would rather be dead.
As has been said several times already, if that is the case you are going too fast and are not doing a tempo run
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Isn't it a progression run, rather than a tempo run?
A tempo run, as far as I know, is run at your LT (one-hour race pace) pace for around 20-30 minutes.
This is what I consider a tempo run to be, but it's not a universal definition. I associate this definition with Jack Daniels, whether or not that's where it originated.
All I could discern from the 2010 Malmo thread on tempos which could be run 5 times a week is that you should run by RPE, but I don't know what RPE level corresponds to a tempo run in his system.
I would say three of the Daniels-style a week would be too much for most people (certainly for me).
fiiv wrote:
Smoove wrote:I wasn't disagreeing, I was honestly trying to understand. Seems the issue was one of terminology. I use temp on and lactate threshold interchangeably; but I don't use those terms for 5k paced intervals while you do. Sounds like we generally agree.
Why don't you use those terms for 5k paced intervals if the stimulus is the same thing?
While 5k pace training does provide a LT/tempo stimulus, from my understanding, that is a secondary, rather than the primary stimulus that the workout is designed to achieve, with the primary stimulus being vo2max adaptation. I would not run at interval/vo2max pace if the primary goal of my workout were to achieve LT adaptation because I could achieve that goal with less stress on my body by running about 20 or 25 seconds per mile slower.
That is generally what I think of when I think of a tempo run, but I can see how other people would use the term tempo run for other workouts.
Really, while I think of a "tempo run" as a 20 minute run at LT pace (1 hour race pace), I think of all of the workouts below as "tempo workouts" because the primary purpose of the workout is to achieve a LT adaptation.
Long tempo runs (where you run for 30 or more minutes, but at a slightly slower pace than your one hour race pace);
Cruise intervals (intervals run at LT pace with 1:00 of recovery for 5:00 or so of work);
Accelerating pace runs (where you may start 10-20 seconds per mile slower than LT pace and end up slightly faster than LT pace);