Discussion: Last One
in: PG; PG > 2014-10-21
Oct 24, 2014 3:31 PM
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One of my big points to my runners was always that anyone can run the last one fast, but who has the balls to run the penultimate interval fast? I never moved that back to the third-to-last interval, probably because of what you experienced.
Oct 24, 2014 3:48 PM
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PG:
:-)
There's also an advantage if the track is a 15-minute drive from home -- you've made to effort to get here, sort of silly to do that and then not finish.
That was a really bad job of pacing -- not pacing that individual 400 but the whole workout. I prefer to do each one as fast or just a hair faster than the previous one, prefer to race the same way.
Though maybe it is good training, for those days when you're racing and the legs aren't there, to bury yourself partway through a workout and then still have to finish it the best you can?
I've always thought there is a lot more to the mental aspect of just running than most orienteers realize.
There's also an advantage if the track is a 15-minute drive from home -- you've made to effort to get here, sort of silly to do that and then not finish.
That was a really bad job of pacing -- not pacing that individual 400 but the whole workout. I prefer to do each one as fast or just a hair faster than the previous one, prefer to race the same way.
Though maybe it is good training, for those days when you're racing and the legs aren't there, to bury yourself partway through a workout and then still have to finish it the best you can?
I've always thought there is a lot more to the mental aspect of just running than most orienteers realize.
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