We often see people do workouts on strava or social media and sometimes we think, if I could just hit those paces in a workout, I could be as fast as them? This might lead an athlete to run workouts faster than they should. The whole point of this podcast is that each workout has a purpose. Even a workout like 6 x 800 meters could be a threshold workout or a VO2MAX workout. The purpose of the workout will dictate the pace you run for the intervals. If you are doing a threshold workout, you would run this reps slower and have shorter recovery inbetween. If you are doing a VO2MAX workout, you would be running these much faster and have maximum rest inbetween.

Racing DEFINED! What really is racing?

Max effort 1 max rep at the gym

Takes time to be able to push yourself: don’t know how to push it

Beginner

Intimate

Advanced

The purpose of each workout

VO2MAX

Threshold

Upper end Aerobic/Marathon Pace

Easy run

Why faster/more isn’t always better

4x 1 mi @ threshold pace @ 6:30

Let’s say you go out and run 6:10 pace (5k

If you do 4 miles of work at 5k pace, that is hella stress

If you do 4 miles of work at threshold pace, it’s less than a race effort

Overtraining

Giving 100% effort is harder to recover from

Saving racing for racing

Is it better to do less?

Not always→ sometimes you have to do more.. Law of diminishing returns

You need to stress the body just enough to make a change→ progressive overload

Signs you might be racing your workouts

Unable to consistently hit workouts

Feeling like you always need additional recovery between reps

Feeling like you are not recovering inbetween workouts/overtraining

Not wanting to do workouts

Injury