Where you're going wrong with interval running
Interval running can be a great tool for runners, but it's easy to get it wrong. These are the mistakes I see runners making and how to avoid them.
The other week I went to an interval session at my running club. It was a few days before a 10k race I was hoping to run a PB at. I’d done a hill session and a cross country race in my previous two runs, so I really had no business running fast that night. It would have been too much intensity and risked not only performing badly in my race but also injury.
What did I do? I did the interval session, but I didn’t run fast.
This is an aspects of interval training that runners often get wrong. They think that ‘interval run’ is synonymous with ‘running really, really fast’, when it isn’t. It’s simply periods of running quicker interspersed with periods of going slower. The exact pace you go - and that can range from really, really fast to a more moderate speed - really depends on what you are training for and the purpose of the session.
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