Seriously I'm sick of the newbie terms like "tempos."
To me it's a garbage term that basically means "I went running today."
If you say fast distance then I know that you ran something close to race pace.
I've heard a progressive run like mile in 6:00, mile in 5:45, mile in 5:30, and mile in 5:00 called a tempo run.
10/10
It's tough living in a world where people use different verbiage to describe something.
Am i supposed to just go back and remove the word tempo from all of my post run fb posts? I dont think so buddy
tempo is anything from 8k-marathon pace, roughly. Depends on who you talk to. So I just call anything in that range a tempo. If I need to get specific, I will.
I agree but I run off effort.No more do I time the run pure effort.Today for example I did 20 minutes easy to a few strides .Then right into the temp 3 miles.Hard effort but I did it in my tranning shoes after that 4 fast 220s 30 seconds rest.I feel not going off the watch is better because it will become like a race and I feel it works better.It is as you say a truly hard effort but not all out.
Not a newbie wrote:
I've heard a progressive run like mile in 6:00, mile in 5:45, mile in 5:30, and mile in 5:00 called a tempo run.
And I've heard the word "repeat" used to describe everything from 25 second 200s to 11 minute 3200s. Does that mean the word repeat is useless?
Yeah, there couldn't possibly be a specific physiological definition of tempo pace. Obviously Jack Daniels is a newbie. I guess we are all newbies. "fast distance running" will be a much less ambiguous term to describe a wo. Let's all use that terminology. Thanks for your contribution.
Not a newbie wrote:
To me it's a garbage term that basically means "I went running today."
Not a newbie wrote:
Seriously I'm sick of the newbie terms like "tempos."
To me it's a garbage term that basically means "I went running today."
If you say fast distance then I know that you ran something close to race pace.
I've heard a progressive run like mile in 6:00, mile in 5:45, mile in 5:30, and mile in 5:00 called a tempo run.
I totally agree, the term tempo run makes little sense to 95% of high school and college runners and 100% of recreational runners. Even comments here show that people do not understand the term. (Ie. "anywhere from 8km to marathon pace") that is so vague it's ridiculous!
I explain to my athletes to run in terms of percentage of race pace for that distance. They understand race pace is 100% of the speed they run in a race so 75% of race pace is understandable. Besides at the end of the day it does not make a difference if they run tempos too fast or too slow the goal is to improve aerobic capacity.
Runners over analyze the training far too much.