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2011-10-23 6:11 PM
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COSkiGirl - 2011-10-21 4:07 PM Back off your intensity.  You don't need to be do anything at 7 or 6.2 mph right now.  Have you tried to see if you went down to say 5 mph or even less if you could just run continuously? 

Right, go for 5 mph or so.  Just enough to shuffle your feet so that it's not a walk.  You need to be running continuously a lot more before you try to go faster.

It just isn't very fun to shuffle along, LOL.  There's something about bursting out with some speed that makes me feel like I'm not a complete slacker.  I'll try the shuffling, though, and see how it goes.

So, I need to actually get to where I can keep up a slow run pace before I do the speed stuff, then?  I was under the impression that "interval" training (I think that's what I was doing?) can help build my endurance because it's teaching my lungs to recover from more effort, thus making that shuffling pace more do-able.  You wouldn't think that running would be so confusing!

Eventually yes intervals can help you build speed but at your mileage level simply running regularly will help you increase speed.  Endurance build comes from the run more, mostly easy part.  

Update:  I tried doing the shuffle thing this afternoon, and it was great.  I ran at a very slow pace - about 4.8mph - but I was able to maintain that for almost the whole 3 mile run.  I only walked a few minutes of that.  I even did a 1.6 mile continuous stretch, which is a miracle!!!  I had only done a continuous mile ONCE in my life before, and that was about a month ago, so 1.6 is crazy!!  Very excited about this running thing now!

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Awesome! It'll just get better from here on.
2011-10-23 7:52 PM
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Way to go!
2011-10-23 9:51 PM
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I think a lot of it has to do with the consistency of the workouts.  I am definitely not a high mileage runner, 5k at best...but if I try to up my mileage, even at the 5k level, when I have only been getting 2 runs per week in, it will result in injury.  It seems to me that the body can adapt a lot better if you are very consistent in the frequency of runs...at least 3x per week.  I know that my body will have issues with me if I am 'feeling good' one day and try to up my mileage though I have only done 2 runs per week in the recent past.
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