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Hadd's Approach To Distance Running

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Oct 2009 3:22pm, 11 Oct 2009 52 posts	Quote Pin Those 'pacing estimates' people give are a pain in the arse since they aren't set in stone. They vary with your own fitness etc. End of the day it is ultimately a game of guesswork based on feeling and experience as to what pace you would run a certain distance to last it out and invariably involves on the fly alterations to keep yourself on track rather than being a constant anyway. As Hadd pointed out at the start of the document, conversions are messed up even further by poor training (that this training corrects) which shows up personal times that don't correlate between distances.
Oct 2009 3:25pm, 11 Oct 2009 53 posts	Quote Pin Aye, SPR, hence my bit about training for shorter work. UC: Yes, everyone can run much faster than that. As I said, it's a question of how long they can, rather than whether they can.
Oct 2009 3:27pm, 11 Oct 2009 54 posts	Quote Pin Oh, and Hadd's little MaxHR test (copied and pasted so the wording is out of context): Then (wearing his HRM) he was to run an all-out 800m and note the highest HR recorded on his monitor. He was to rest 2 mins and run an all-out 400m. The highest number he would see as he crossed the finish-line, we would take as his HRmax.
Oct 2009 3:31pm, 11 Oct 2009 55 posts	Quote Pin UC: If it hurts to run at a faster pace, what we're talking about is the reason why and how to sort it.
chirunner Oct 2009 3:33pm, 11 Oct 2009 599 posts	Quote Pin chirunner There is a much greater sense of honesty/reality about the hadd approach which you do not seem to get with other ways that seem to suggest a hard coded formula will get you there and people wonder when it does not work where they went wrong. This way round you can check the feedback on your aerobic state and then decide how hard to push each time.
Ultracat Oct 2009 3:34pm, 11 Oct 2009 7,172 posts	Quote Pin Ultracat I must be doing the wrong type of training
Oct 2009 3:38pm, 11 Oct 2009 57 posts	Quote Pin Aye, true. Like Lydiard said, you don't ever make an athlete play strict on some formula. If you do choose to stick to a program, it is up to the athelete to determine how hard they play and when they are finished on how they feel, even if the session hasn't been fullfilled and then they adjust to make it work next time.
Oct 2009 3:39pm, 11 Oct 2009 58 posts	Quote Pin Crosspost UC: Congrats, you stumbled onto your solution
Oct 2009 3:41pm, 11 Oct 2009 59 posts	Quote Pin Grab a HRM and join the fun Since idea is in playing in the 'comfortable' zone not breaching the LT, you'll enjoy it too.
Oct 2009 3:44pm, 11 Oct 2009 60 posts	Quote Pin counterpartcoaching.com Good reading, can learn a lot from it.