La wrote:Jwolf wrote:I will admit I sort of missed the point of the easy/hard alternation and was thinking more along the lines of actual speed intervals. I probably started a bit too fast-- that made the workout pretty tough with such short recovery, and I needed more recovery during the "easy" minutes. There was no way I could have kept easy-running or even jogging through those minutes and still been able to finish. Oh well-- it's done now!!
I read it the same way as you did. It was a bit of an experiment for me because I hadn't done intervals like that in a while with such little rest in between. As I said, I found the 3-min interval to be the hardest, since I was increasing the speed as the interval time was decreasing. If I were to do this workout again, I'd likely keep the interval paces the same throughout at about 7.2mph, which would have made the 3-2-1-2-3 intervals more manageable. The other x-factor (for me) was that I was sick, so I don't know if I bonked because of that, or because I chose the wrong starting pace. Probably a bit of both.
IC, even though I'd originally said I felt the workout had a good balance of detail/flexibility, in retrospect it might have been good to have some direction as to whether we should be increasing the pace as the intervals got shorter, or whether we should be keeping them the same. Those are two very different workouts (especially with such short rest in between).
It was an experiment.
I never said the 1 minute was rest. I said it was easy. What does that mean? Up to everyone to figure out. Easy enough that you should be able to run hard the next "interval". What's hard? Again up to everyone to figure out individually.
This workout isn't part of anyone's specific training plan, it isn't tailored to anyone's race goals or speed. It is tailored to my whimsy and most likely the mood I am in when I am creating my workouts for the week.
