• Distance 2.25 miles
  • Time 00:21:41
  • Average Speed 6.23 mph
  • Average Pace 9:38 min/mile
  • Heart Rate Average 178.00 bpm
  • Heart Rate Max 191.00 bpm
  • Elevation 2343.00 feet
  • Resting Heart Rate 47.00 bpm

Tags: base, outside, easy

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Running

July 07, 2008

Posted at 12:12 AM
  • Distance 2.25 miles
  • Time 00:21:49
  • Average Speed 6.19 mph
  • Average Pace 9:41 min/mile
  • Heart Rate Average 169.00 bpm
  • Heart Rate Max 187.00 bpm
  • Elevation 2343.00 feet
  • Resting Heart Rate 47.00 bpm

Tags: home, treadmill, fartlek

Solid interval workout, about .5 mile warmup, 6 solid 6:40 min/pace surges of varying length (.5-.8 mile) followed with walking recovery until HR dropped below 80%.

Finished off the workout with another 0.5 mile cooldown.

I'm wondering if I should start adding to my warmup/cooldown distance to gain the miles but keep the "workout miles" fast. I don't want to fall into Kellon Marson/Sam Pertz mode of lots of slow long "workouts" do I?

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Sagitus says,

Lots of slow long workouts aren't bad as long as you mix in a few speed days. Especially early in a training program slow miles are how you build up your body to the point you can handle speed work. I was just reading an article today that talks about speed training and he lists some speed workouts assuming you can put in a couple miles warmup before starting the "speed" portion of the training, so until you build up your mileage some I wouldn't worry too much about speed. The frequency and type of speed work you are doing now should keep your legs and lungs used to going faster than normal, which is the goal. Doing longer warmup and cooldown would be less beneficial than adding an extra repeat or fartlek within the workout itself. Keep your long days long and your fast days fast, they work the body in different ways.

http://www.birkie.com/?page=1029&trainingid=53

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