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Why is it sideways?
I've got a fever...
Here's the problem. When I got home and reviewed my pace and HR, it was clear that I wasn't running easy but had actually ran somewhere between tempo and race pace.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
Why would my level of effort feel less on a fast run than other days when it felt like I was really pushing but was, in fact, going slow?
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maybe there were pretty girls around?
1. Why was it bad that you ran fast today? How do you know you did something wrong?
2. Pace does not equal effort.
3. Running by feel means learning not only to measure degrees of intensity, but also to determine the meaning of and differentiate between different kinds of intensity. The feeling of fatigue that is associated with running slow on tired legs is very different from the feeling of fatigue at the end of a fast tempo run.
4. Let's see how you feel tomorrow.
5. If you make your log public, it will be even easier to comment.
Definitely works for me.
I don't think I've had a good day since May and I haven't had a good hot run this season. It's funny but it's been so long that it never even cross my mind. That's positive thinking for you...
Actually, I was running someone down for a big part of the run. For some reason, I love to try and overtake people. It helps to keep me distracted and gives me something to do..
Actually, I was running someone down for a big part of the run. For some reason, I love to try and overtake people. It helps to keep me distracted and gives me something to do. ... I was setting out to do an easy run. Feeling good at tempo pace is great but I either need to adjust my thinking on my tempo pace or get better at reading my body.
I love running people down, too. In races. If it felt good to run the guy down, more power to you. Just don't be surprised if an "easy" run was faster than you expected if you were doing that.
. It was really warm when I started but I was feeling pretty good (most likely due to reduced miles last week).
But I guess it all boils down to personal experience. It took me about 10,000miles to really learn what an "easy" pace was, and it took another 10,000 miles to learn learn a training formula that worked for me. That's experience. Miles are experience. Miles over all kinds of intensity and terrain. That's why so many experienced runners sound like a broken record, and say, "run more." You want a shortcut? Pick better parents, stick to short distances, and take some sort of expensive medical aid - whatever's in style. Right, so. You want to learn to pace? Run on the track with a stopwatch. Only look at the time once a lap. That will teach you something. You want to learn control? - how to mete out your effort? Race. It took me about 40 5k races to figure it out, and even now, I flub 4 out of five. I figure hitting it 1 out of ten times is good. You don't need to wear a watch to race - I have gone both ways and it does nothing for me. If you race frequently and spend some time on the track, and run a lot, you are intimately aware of the pain associated with the sum of your steps to that point in the race. I'd have you ditch the watch and hRM and gps, and all that crap for your easy runs. You don't know what the word "easy" means? Well - go run a 140 mile week out of the blue, and you will learn by about Tuesday. People who say they don't know easy (and I was one, and sometimes I still am...) It's a lack of experience. You need to poke those limits, as Tusca and Jim have - then you know what you can do. And me, too. I'm an idiot sometimes. Running is humbling.
On easy pace, courtesy of obsessor: