I wasn't really intending to use super-shoes shoes for training, it was just I got the gyakusou next% cheap and already had an unused pair each of VF and AF for racing, so I thought I might as well use the gyakusou a few times for timed intervals. The gyakusou look ugly and are a bit unnecessarily heavy (extra upper fabric) but still seem to generate very quick times. Possibly better than the original VF for me (based on a single threshold session and 10k race with each pair), but I'm not sure about that.
Following a difficult session last week I felt like I needed a confidence boost so was back in the Gyakusou Next% shoes....went very fast indeed considering I'm a bit sore still after my first 20-miler on Sunday. Average 3:49 pace for 4 x 10mins (2 min rest), that's 38:10 min pace for a 10k. Looking back at this week in previous plans I've never done it better than 3:52 pace, though I did once do the same workout faster 5 weeks further on in the training block (that was in original VF).
I’ve had 4% and next% vapours and probably prefer the lower stack of the 4% but ive just gotten a pair of tempo next% which I prefer for shorter stuff.
Over a 10K is there likely to be much different between the tempo next% and alphaflys?
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