Are your tracks closed? Where are you doing intervals?

The interval is the rest period between repeats. You can probably rest just about anywhere. Finding an appropriate place to do the repeats themselves is probably a tougher task than finding a place to rest.

Treadmill for long intervals, it's nice, and very hilly dirt road for shorter stuff - splits are all over the place but the effort is definitely there. There are no flat segments over ~200m where I'm located.

Hopefully the closest track will be open in a couple weeks because it'll be impossible to get a 5k time trial in otherwise.

pedant wrote:

The interval is the rest period between repeats. You can probably rest just about anywhere. Finding an appropriate place to do the repeats themselves is probably a tougher task than finding a place to rest.

Don’t be pedantic with your semantic

Flat section of road - a loop consisting of 4 streets in the shape of a rectangle, about 1 mile around, and before 7am it is completely deserted and perfect for speed work or TTs

Do timed intervals instead aka fartlek runs instead.

Tracks in Manhattan seem to be open--I've gone by a couple. But I'm doing 200s on a rolling stretch of boardwalk by the Hudson--mostly deserted but sometimes picks up wind off the river.

I just program the workout into my Garmin and run it on the roads. The neighborhood is pancake flat and I have to go 3 miles to find any decent hills. There is a half and full mile trail loop at a nearby park, but the pavement sucks and too many people walking. The is a loop of road about a half mile with roughly a quarter from intersection to intersection I could use, but the Garmin is just easier.

Our tracks are closed. Our roads will be closed soon thanks to same a-holes in Belgium publishing a hit piece on runners.

Measure out 2/4/6/8/1k in quiet neighborhoods or dead end roads.

Our track was closed last week (in Amsterdam). Up until that moment I could train and avoid people easily, but apparently there were groups training there occasionally (crossfit people), so they put a fence around the track.

Now I have to run my fast reps on crowded bicycle paths in the park and up bridges. Yeah, much safer!

I don't have a dog, but a dog park near me is a loop measured out 630m (using GPS) with a particular sidewalk joint marking each 1/4 (close enough). For intervals, using Daniel's calculations, my 2x laps are 1,260m which my current Interval pace says I should do in 5:10. So I run around that loop twice. For reps it is not as easy, I still use the 1/4 markings but do 3/4s (which is 473m) vs 400m, just scale the times, so I run them in 1:50 instead of 1:43. I also second the other comments about marking out a side road, I have 200m, 400m, and 500m marked out on a side road. If there are no convenient trees or rocks for markers I have a couple of small safety cones, but really after you start running the same course you find "something" to cue in on. That road also keeps going, so can use the GPS to do a longer interval (1000, 1200m) and take my rest run out and back and run the same segment in reverse every 2nd interval.

Channel your inner Henry Rono and run some hills. There won't be any track races until December; there's no need to be on the track now.

The_Conductor wrote:

Channel your inner Henry Rono and run some hills. There won't be any track races until December; there's no need to be on the track now.

Oh. Is “hills” code for drinking a lot of beer and getting fat in the off-season?

Live in norway. No tracks here are able to close, free for all. No fence.

There is a flat, paved bike path 2.5 miles away from my apartment with markings every 100 meters. If the weather is too nice, I have to work to dodge people, but it's not that bad. I also bought a measuring wheel and some spray chalk just in case I need to go somewhere else.

The odd thing about where I live is that even though all of the schools and parks are closed, the tracks are wide open. No one else is using them though and as long as the fences around them are not locked up, I'm going to continue to use them.

I’ve kept my normal routine of running at 5:30am in the morning. Asides from a handful of individuals with the same idea, I don’t have to worry about busy trails/paths.

local high school track at 6:30 am. Only have to climb over a small (waist high) fence, and security hasn't caught me yet. There's another guy, about 70, who comes at the same time and jogs around the track. I figure I don't have to be faster than security, just faster than him.

The tracks at our K-12 schools are locked down and many have extra temporary fencing set up around them. I believe the track at our university is accessible to some extent (based on people’s Strava) but I haven’t checked it out yet.

I have a few neighborhood and cemetery routes measured & entered into strava as segments. Like others have said, if I need room for a workout I just go early to avoid crowds.