15-12-2025, 02:34 PM
Thank you Gavin for your most considered response.
I unfortunately only saw your latest post after my run this morning, so Im afriad I went longer than your recommendation of between 8 - 10K run and ran 13K this morning in my attempt to get closer to the magic 15K. I felt pretty okay and kept my heartrate within the Aerobic zone and running time of 1:26'40.
I must agree in hindsight that it may very well be the longer Aero run last week that was the culprit responsible for my poor interval performance. I think that as I am no longer used to going long, it took its toll on my performance as I was still a bit fatigued from the Monday run. Remarkably when I was running,"properly", these things never effected my performance this dramatically and I am now learning through you that fitness is measured by so many other metriics than just pace or speed which used to be the case for me. It makes such a lot of sense especially as an older, less exercised runner that not only recovery takes longer, but sessions have so much greater inpact than they once did.
I will keep the Wednesday interval session within the previous attempted target zones and report back.
Kindest regards
Neil.
I unfortunately only saw your latest post after my run this morning, so Im afriad I went longer than your recommendation of between 8 - 10K run and ran 13K this morning in my attempt to get closer to the magic 15K. I felt pretty okay and kept my heartrate within the Aerobic zone and running time of 1:26'40.
I must agree in hindsight that it may very well be the longer Aero run last week that was the culprit responsible for my poor interval performance. I think that as I am no longer used to going long, it took its toll on my performance as I was still a bit fatigued from the Monday run. Remarkably when I was running,"properly", these things never effected my performance this dramatically and I am now learning through you that fitness is measured by so many other metriics than just pace or speed which used to be the case for me. It makes such a lot of sense especially as an older, less exercised runner that not only recovery takes longer, but sessions have so much greater inpact than they once did.
I will keep the Wednesday interval session within the previous attempted target zones and report back.
Kindest regards
Neil.