I need help with my workouts, I always feel like I won’t get better if I keep having workouts where I don’t hit the split i was supposed to. How many off splits can you have before you just stop improving?
I need help with my workouts, I always feel like I won’t get better if I keep having workouts where I don’t hit the split i was supposed to. How many off splits can you have before you just stop improving?
Set slower workout paces. If you can’t hit your splits your paces are too ambitious for your fitness level.
Lowered Expectations wrote:
Set slower workout paces. If you can’t hit your splits your paces are too ambitious for your fitness level.
I’m a mid 4:40 runner for 1600m, so I’m trying to hit 5:20 or faster for my splits for 5k workouts, as 5:20 pace equates to around 16:30, which is my goal.
That's the problem. You're doing workouts at your goal pace and not your current fitness level. Go run a 5k and do workouts based on that time, not whatever lofty goal you have.
"Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on."- Steve Scott
Bleh wrote:
That's the problem. You're doing workouts at your goal pace and not your current fitness level. Go run a 5k and do workouts based on that time, not whatever lofty goal you have.
Would, but coach hasnt given us an all out race effort yet.. ran a comfortable threshold 5k at 17:37 last week, so I know I can go a good deal faster.