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Speaking of which, wasn't this or something to its effect, just posted on letsrun? I could see it as a training method, but 5 seconds isn't going to do much. A 1 minute walk and something like a mile or five minutes at anerobic threshold would make a good "cruise interval" workout. At 5K effort anything under 30 seconds every mile probably isn't doing a lot for you.
So why would he do it? He's no newbie runner. He runs 60 races a year. So why do it?
It seems odd to me. Why don’t you ask him?
I'll be interested to hear. I just can't see your heart rate dropping enough over 5 seconds to make much if any difference.
OK, I asked him and he said "I'm just out of shape".Still. I'm thinking. You're still faster and you're sporting a gut!
I remember my first ever 5k race. I had been running for about 4 months, but I was in my 20s. I ran 22:08 which is more than decent for a newbie, but in the last quarter mile, an old guy with a gut ran right by me. It angered me to no end.That was the Bancroft 5k in Haddonfield, NJ. Many moons ago.
BTW, I found Brutal, he's posting at Letsrun. Dino be thy name.
Really? And yet that's odd. He never ran as far as I know. He was great on making lists of things in his head. I don't know whether he was autistic or what it was about him. He said he had a massive music collection. If I remember he was living in cheeseville - Bakersfield, CA.
So I was thinking during my run today (which is what I do during my runs) that I am curious enough about this that I want to try it as an experiment.I ran my own PR 5k in December on a flat road course and had a near perfect power output of around 103% with very little variation between splits.How long are this guy’s “rabbits“?My “strides“ today were 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off and I was definitely feeling the recovery between them. But I was on tech trail and nothing like a lab environment as it were…So maybe 50-55 seconds sprint with 5-10 seconds power walk recovery?The other reason this might “work” as a strategy might be for a runner with an abundance of fast-twitch muscle (I.e. a sprinter) to do “ok” at an endurance distance. He says he’s out of shape. But it might also be that he’s a natural sprinter (even when he’s in shape).I’m NOT a sprinter but I still might try this in March after my target race in Feb.Either at a race, or just as a workout to see how hard I have to go to “make up” for walking… then can I keep that up for 5-10 k?