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Hadd's Approach To Distance Running

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Oct 2009 9:15pm, 10 Oct 2009 15 posts	Quote Pin No, my mighty jockanese friend
Boab Oct 2009 9:15pm, 10 Oct 2009 5,618 posts	Quote Pin Boab LOL, welcome back
Oct 2009 9:16pm, 10 Oct 2009 16 posts	Quote Pin Cheers me dears
SPR™ Oct 2009 9:22pm, 10 Oct 2009 7,645 posts	Quote Pin SPR™ Boab, don't think they have to be race pace, depends what you are trying to achieve with them. As for the running them at a pace you want rather than what you can, I think this is where the HRM can help, if you run faster but your overall HR is higher then you've just worked harder. I take my HR for each interval.
Oct 2009 9:28pm, 10 Oct 2009 17 posts	Quote Pin Intervals should be taken in the same way the Hadd gimmick is, as Boab et al pointed out. It isn't about banging them out as hard as you can or at a pace you want the end result to be, this achieves little to nothing or sends you into reverse. Everything is progressive overload. You train at the edge, you rest enough, the boundary advances, you take up the slack, repeat. This is how the body functions. The problem at the heart of the "grrrr" approach is one primarily of impatience on top of ignorance.
Oct 2009 9:32pm, 10 Oct 2009 8,529 posts	Quote Pin howdy, panda boy
Oct 2009 9:33pm, 10 Oct 2009 18 posts	Quote Pin It takes time, but the results are vast, lasting and infinite. I like Hadd's toothpaste tube analogy.
SPR™ Oct 2009 9:43pm, 10 Oct 2009 7,646 posts	Quote Pin SPR™ Example from my log. 6 x 720m (approx) with 1:30 recovery. Jan 15: ----------- 2.50 2.46 2.48 2.42 2.48 2.44 Total time 16:38 AHR per interval: 165, 174, 176, 180, 177, 177. AHR for intervals 175, AHR in recoveries 150 Feb 19------------- 2.40 2.41 2.39 2.37 2.38 2.38 Total time 15:53 AHR per interval: 170, 175, 175, 175, 178, 177. AHR in intervals 175, AHR in recoveries 149 Basically I know the pace improvement is all training not me pushing harder
Oct 2009 9:49pm, 10 Oct 2009 23 posts	Quote Pin What was that training for, and how did you honestly feel?
Oct 2009 9:50pm, 10 Oct 2009 24 posts	Quote Pin and this is the Hadd thread again, next person gets a slap lol