BHViking wrote:
Beersandmiles -- Thanks for the clarification. Looks like this is a fairly RARE workout due to the intensity.
From one of the strava reports, it looks like you went back and forth a whole bunch of times, meaning you had to come to a stop and turn around multiple time? Yikes!!!
Your comment about learning to gauge effort level is interesting. I rarely do progression runs. When I do, I never do them this hard. However, I do finish them this hard. It's just that I'm nowhere near the top gear until the last 10 minutes. On these, you're relatively close fairly early by the looks of it. But I know what you mean about gauging the effort. For example, I realized in my last one just how easy paces well above my daily pace feels. Also, how damn hard the really fast paces feel, hahaha.
Thanks for sharing, that's really cool to see.
Yeah... I was at my Dad's in SC for a month and that 1.5 mile bike path was realistically the only option to run a long workout. It made the workout very interesting to say the least. If I had to turn around during the last 5 minutes I would've just ran into the street!
I used to do the latter, especially post college. I just flew the last couple miles during longer runs. The 30 is definitely a bit more on the extreme side but I find that I'm more riding the line than anything. Really the hardest part of it all was the last 7 minutes and the course was mainly the issue. I think flat would've made it much easier.
I tend to be fairly conservative during my workouts but every so often it's nice to take the limiter off and see how the body responds when tired. I don't taper the week for the workout either like I do for my peak workout. It's just another workout in the toolkit.