Inventive Interval Sessions
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Jul 2013
5:53pm, 16 Jul 2013
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fetcheveryone
We all know about 10x400, 5x800, 3 x 1 mile, that sort of thing. But beyond that, there must be some cruel, twisted sessions that have been invented to mess with minds. Like how about making the efforts 1 mile long, and the recovery is 9 minutes minus however long it took you to run the mile. Any other beastly suggestions? 
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Jul 2013
6:04pm, 16 Jul 2013
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Velociraptor
Lord Fetch! Are you bored with your internet plaything and trying to make its inhabitants jog themselves fatally to death?
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Jul 2013
6:05pm, 16 Jul 2013
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fetcheveryone
How could I get bored of that?
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Jul 2013
6:06pm, 16 Jul 2013
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fetcheveryone
Nah, truth is, I'm hopefully getting another thingy in the Guardian, describing how to do intervals, why, etc - and I want to include some interesting sessions to mix things up a bit.
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Jul 2013
6:06pm, 16 Jul 2013
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fetcheveryone
I even did some this morning, just to see what they feel like
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Jul 2013
6:08pm, 16 Jul 2013
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RuthB2
Intervals with a dog are fun. One lap at your slow pace, one lap chasing them and repeat.
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Jul 2013
6:09pm, 16 Jul 2013
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fetcheveryone
In Stephen's case, we'd spend most of our time eating duck poo. Less fartleks, more sh*tleks.
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Jul 2013
6:19pm, 16 Jul 2013
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daviec
This is your chance to turn the world of running journalism on its head and get the truth out there. Tell them, there's a good chance that only a small fraction of their readers has any need to for intervals. If they haven't got a significant aerobic base then they can forget intervals. Their original purpose has been hijacked and replaced to kid people on that they don't have to slog out miles to get better, they can just do a few runs a week - intervals/fartlek, a tempo, and long run. Intervals are no longer the cherry on the cake, baked with loving patience over many years of running miles and miles and miles. They have become the flashy sessions that convince people that the reason they aren't faster is because they aren't doing the latest 5x10k at 5k pace mental interval session.
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Jul 2013
6:19pm, 16 Jul 2013
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Velociraptor
I don't do much speedwork, but I've got one nice little session I quite like. Set your Garmin to bleep every half mile. Warm up at an easy pace for a mile (or longer if you're old like me). Then, when the bleep sounds, accelerate for 70 double paces and gradually drop your speed back to baseline over the next 30 double paces. Run at an easy pace till the next bleep. Repeat 10 or 12 times. Then jog home. The efforts will be about 0.2 of a mile, the recoveries about 0.3 of a mile, and managing the effort level so that you can keep accelerating instead of taking off too hard at the start of each effort and ending up having to ease off too early, and not doing the recoveries too hard, is a skill. Whether it's actually of any use for anything is not something I care all that much about
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Jul 2013
6:21pm, 16 Jul 2013
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Velociraptor
(And I don't much care if all the Guardianista runners half-kill themselves by doing intervals too soon. They're the competition, innit?)
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