http://duncanlarkin.com/roads/2009/06/12/pedal-to-the-metal/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:01:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://duncanlarkin.com/roads/2009/06/12/pedal-to-the-metal/#comment-19367 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:59:41 +0000 http://duncanlarkin.com/roads/2009/06/12/pedal-to-the-metal/#comment-19367 Good topic; good article. Another way of mixing "sensible" and "all-out" efforts is the cut-down interval format -- kind of a mix of all the McMillan suggestions -- in which you run the first interval at a relatively easy pace and then each subsequent one X seconds faster than the previous one until you can't continue. (Example: 800s in 2:30, 2:28, 2:26, 2:24, 2:22....). You still get the pleasure of thrashing yourself, but without having to do so from the very beginning. Good topic; good article. Another way of mixing “sensible” and “all-out” efforts is the cut-down interval format — kind of a mix of all the McMillan suggestions — in which you run the first interval at a relatively easy pace and then each subsequent one X seconds faster than the previous one until you can’t continue. (Example: 800s in 2:30, 2:28, 2:26, 2:24, 2:22….). You still get the pleasure of thrashing yourself, but without having to do so from the very beginning.

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