xcxzassa wrote:
Run on threadmill
Run on a track. There is a reason why there are tracks everywhere. Runners are supposed to do their intervals on a 400m track.
xcxzassa wrote:
Run on threadmill
Run on a track. There is a reason why there are tracks everywhere. Runners are supposed to do their intervals on a 400m track.
Baltsu wrote:
Run on a track. There is a reason why there are tracks everywhere. Runners are supposed to do their intervals on a 400m track.
Outisde the US, there aren't tracks everywhere. I live in a city of 3.5 million people, and the nearest track, which I'd have to pay to use, is a bit more than 7km away (and 30+ minutes by metro). The next closest is more like 10-12km. That's too far to make getting there and back my warmup/cool down. There are about 15 full sized tracks available in the entire metropolitan area, most of them in the distant suburbs (for obvious reasons). Since I'm middle aged, not competing, working, and have a family, it's not worth the bother to get to one.
For what it's worth, I do my 400m intervals up a hill, and that can't be done on a track.
Really, this is something that makes you "sick?" Once I was running on a trail and twisted my ankle pretty bad on a rock. I sat on the ground clutching my ankle for a couple minutes, in that time 5-10 people must have passed me without asking if I was okay before someone finally did. Most people awkwardly ignored me like I was a homeless person panhandling in the streets, which I felt was kind of a dick move. Maybe you should stop acting being so over-dramatic that people think you're in medical danger after you run your intervals.
Rippling Hysteresis wrote:
Yeah, even if I do intervals on the track (and jog a lap in between) I've been told I need to "learn to pace myself." It's sort of amusing.
That has actually been suggested to me in the past when my team was doing grass fartleks in the park. "Maybe teach those kids to pace themselves a bit so they don't have to slow down every couple of minutes?" It's cute, I don't get offended. Since they start the conversation I say use it as a teaching moment.
Let's face it, to the average mortal "running" is just a continuous jog. They don't understand all of the layers of this sport and the different energy systems and such.
What the OP has left out is that he is running with his high school cross country team. The people asking him these things are his coach and other teammates. The reason they are asking him this is that he is running all out for 100m on his 400m repeats and then falling to the ground.
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