Every easy-running guide says to slow down until you can talk comfortably. I already feel slow enough to be passed by enthusiastic walkers on hills. But when I push the pace, the next day's legs feel heavy and I don't recover well for the following run. Do you accept a very slow easy pace as part of building endurance, or use walk breaks to keep the effort genuinely low? The watch's pace number keeps messing with my head.
Deciding whether to slow easy runs further when they already feel very slow
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If your recovery is bad when you push, the pace is already too fast for easy days. I’d trust the effort level over the watch number and let...
If your recovery is bad when you push, the pace is already too fast for easy days. I’d trust the effort level over the watch number and let the pace be embarrassingly slow if that’s what keeps the next run feeling good.
Walk breaks are fine too. I use them on hills when my easy run would otherwise quietly stop being easy.
Yeah, the point is low stress, not proving anything to the GPS. I’ve had easy runs where I barely jogged the climbs and still got the benefi...
This. If you can talk and finish fresh, it counts. My easy pace looks ridiculous on paper, but the training only started working when I stopped arguing with it.