It's all relative

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FL,United States

Member Since:

Feb 08, 2015

Gender:

Male

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Running Accomplishments:

Certified course PR's:

Mile: 4:28.0 (Florida, Jan 2020)

5K: 15:12 (FL, Jan. 2020)

10K: 31:44 (FL, Feb. 2020)

15K: 49:03 (FL, Feb. 2020)

1/2 Marathon: 1:10:34 (FL, Feb. 2020)

Marathon: 2:26:57 (WA, July 2019)

100k (63.7 miles, trail): 9:11:00 (FL, Jan. 2019)

Personal:

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Tue, Jun 08, 2021
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Interval workout on the road.  Workout was 2x12:00 with 5:00 recovery in between.  I usually avoid the super long workouts especially when doing tempo style stuff on the weekend and Thursdays.

Splits (paces)- 5:40/mile, 5:40/mile

The workout felt pretty easy.  Longer intervals are definitely the way to go when getting the endurance back up.  In any event, I much enjoy this pace as it's so easy to relax and enjoy being able to go out there and do it and just kind of float along.

Comments
From Tom K on Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 08:41:15 from 47.206.60.114

Man, that's awesome! Glad you are back!

At some point Do you cross a line from "Longer Intervals" to "Multiple Tempos"? Because 12 minutes is a loooong interval.

Yes, it is all relative, I guess.

From Mike on Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 09:04:15 from 35.142.90.55

Yeah, I usually describe this one as a tempo workout. Anything over a mile is pretty much always tempo work (unless it's a race!)

So I agree, definitely relaxed and treated it like a tempo and not as intervals. I have done it as a workout a couple of times (95-98% effort) and it makes for a pretty blown up week following the workout, so I don't recommend that haha.

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