Nice work 👍. 25 x 400 w 30s rest has been my speed Tuesday for about the last 2 years ever since i heard a Norwegian was doing it. Its actually something i look forward to more than any other run, i suppose because you get a rest each 2min or so and its not as mentally hard as say 4 x 1km. Anyway, i find its helped me heaps so think about keeping it in the rotation neil!
Wow, 30secs rest, that's outstanding, mate. I really enjoyed the session, but it's getting warmer here and I think I will save it for when the days cool off again. 👍
You're making me laugh Alan. It's still a long way off, my problem these days is sustaining an effort over a distance. I'm really just happy getting out and having a workout now with no pressure of goal/time setting for events. That might be a cop out, but enjoying my running so much more at the moment.👍
Sometimes you just have to scratch the itch, mate. I enjoyed the session, but not in a hurry to go back to it, especially with the weather getting warmer. Might save it for next winter! 👍
Brilliant session Neil, well done!! 👏 You should take a lot of confidence from this going into the Melbourne half and hopefully it's taken you to the next level of fitness. Sometimes it's just fun to go for it in these types of sessions when you're feeling good, even if the reps were a lot quicker than what you had planned.
Thanks mate. You look at 25 x 400 on paper and you want to go hide in a corner, but I actually enjoyed this session. I'll do it again, but probably when the weather gets cooler again. 👍
Were you targeting a zone/ what pace zone would the 4m28-35 put you in? You mentioned at the start that this was to be an increase from last week's steady session. Did those paces per interval and PREs achieve your workout goal? cheers
Hi mate, I might answer this in a bit more detail in a video soon. But short answer is I don't really look at my zones. I have never been tested and anything outside of that is quess work. I try to go on RPE and pace for most of these sessions. This session was probably a 7-8 RPE. I ended up faster than planned for these intervals, but I didn't feel too beat up afterwards. 👍
@@runwithwoody I've been using Dr Will O'Connor's Training Zone Calcs for HR and Pace zones, along with Training Peaks. I'm lucky; my Apple Watch 9 beat for beat matched a Polar chest strap during a VO2 max test in May this year. Also, reading about Power/ watts I'm seeing consistency there too with my watch. All the power meters seem to be relative, so I saved $400 on the Stryd pods 😁 Dr Will's zone calc is 'easy'. You can test by a 30-minute Threshold run, averaging your HR over the last 20 minutes, or use 10km race data. I recently came across the Easy Interval Method by Klaas Lok (kindle version), which I'm starting to integrate with my pace zones. A very simple TL:DR version of Lok is zone 3 intervals with more rest (200m, 400m, 1k, 2k). So you're below lactate threshold throughout - that's where you'll be for distance races. Over a whole session you might be averaging Zone 2 HR. It's exciting stuff. Cheers Woody
Nice work 👍. 25 x 400 w 30s rest has been my speed Tuesday for about the last 2 years ever since i heard a Norwegian was doing it. Its actually something i look forward to more than any other run, i suppose because you get a rest each 2min or so and its not as mentally hard as say 4 x 1km. Anyway, i find its helped me heaps so think about keeping it in the rotation neil!
Wow, 30secs rest, that's outstanding, mate. I really enjoyed the session, but it's getting warmer here and I think I will save it for when the days cool off again. 👍
Sub 90 Neil. No excuses now you've done that workout.
You're making me laugh Alan. It's still a long way off, my problem these days is sustaining an effort over a distance. I'm really just happy getting out and having a workout now with no pressure of goal/time setting for events. That might be a cop out, but enjoying my running so much more at the moment.👍
@@runwithwoody enjoying the process they say
I dont know if i should say outstanding bro or wtf was you thinking you mad man 🤪🤪 seems like a great session though bro well beyond my means 🙈🙈
Sometimes you just have to scratch the itch, mate. I enjoyed the session, but not in a hurry to go back to it, especially with the weather getting warmer. Might save it for next winter! 👍
Great session with a solid finish!
It's all that pacing you have been doing for our Sunday runs. 👍
smashed it woody.
Thanks mate.👍
Brilliant session Neil, well done!! 👏 You should take a lot of confidence from this going into the Melbourne half and hopefully it's taken you to the next level of fitness. Sometimes it's just fun to go for it in these types of sessions when you're feeling good, even if the reps were a lot quicker than what you had planned.
Thanks mate. You look at 25 x 400 on paper and you want to go hide in a corner, but I actually enjoyed this session. I'll do it again, but probably when the weather gets cooler again. 👍
Nice running bro. I love the shorter intervals. Nice to go faster than expected
Cheer mate. Always good when you tick off a session a little better than what you had planned. Take the good ones when you can. 👍
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Cheers mate. 👍
Were you targeting a zone/ what pace zone would the 4m28-35 put you in?
You mentioned at the start that this was to be an increase from last week's steady session.
Did those paces per interval and PREs achieve your workout goal? cheers
Hi mate, I might answer this in a bit more detail in a video soon. But short answer is I don't really look at my zones. I have never been tested and anything outside of that is quess work. I try to go on RPE and pace for most of these sessions. This session was probably a 7-8 RPE. I ended up faster than planned for these intervals, but I didn't feel too beat up afterwards. 👍
@@runwithwoody I've been using Dr Will O'Connor's Training Zone Calcs for HR and Pace zones, along with Training Peaks. I'm lucky; my Apple Watch 9 beat for beat matched a Polar chest strap during a VO2 max test in May this year. Also, reading about Power/ watts I'm seeing consistency there too with my watch. All the power meters seem to be relative, so I saved $400 on the Stryd pods 😁
Dr Will's zone calc is 'easy'. You can test by a 30-minute Threshold run, averaging your HR over the last 20 minutes, or use 10km race data.
I recently came across the Easy Interval Method by Klaas Lok (kindle version), which I'm starting to integrate with my pace zones. A very simple TL:DR version of Lok is zone 3 intervals with more rest (200m, 400m, 1k, 2k). So you're below lactate threshold throughout - that's where you'll be for distance races. Over a whole session you might be averaging Zone 2 HR. It's exciting stuff. Cheers Woody
Wait why are you doing static stretches b4 a run???🧐
I wasn't, I had done a warm up run before I did those stretches, drills, strides. I've never stretched before a run. 👍