Cool Your Jets
Written by Kevin Masters
Thursday, January 28, 2010 01:40 PM
I have always been a student of Jack Daniels and Greg McMillan, two highly respected run coaches. In particular their high emphasis on tempo run training or threshold training, for intervals upwards of 15, maybe 20 minutes long. I loved it, and when looking at a triathletes schedule and limited to possibly 2 to 3 runs a week you got lots of bang for your buck. They were the toughest workouts I could do because of the duration of the interval and the pace, essentially one's 1 hour race pace. But while I was finding it tough to be mentally and physically ready for this level of workout on a regular basis i was also finding that everything i read in terms of training for runners, would always refer to tempo runs up to 60 minutes long. I would stress over this wondering how whimpy I was because there's no way I could do this 1 hour race pace for an hour on a weekly or bi weekly schedule. The other problem was, what do you do when you have built up to your broken interval hour at tempo pace but race season still wasn't here yet.
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