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purple hayes
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 Posted: 10/27/03 - 21:48 Post subject: Where is the joy in intervals?
I'm back to doing intervals for the first time in about 6 months. Now I remembered why i stopped. I hate them. It's too bad they work so well for me.
How do y'all convince yourselves to do them?
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 10/27/03 - 21:52 Post subject:
I kinda like them. There's something about waking up at 5:30 (way earlier than usual for me. I have to because I run at a high school track and it's reserved from 7:30-til) and hauling arse around the track that I enjoy. The foggier, the better. Makes me feel like a better runner than I am.
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TimRuns
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Posted: 10/27/03 - 23:45 Post subject:
For me intervals are something I have to do but not something I want to do. I do them because that would make me a better and faster runner. I got back into doing intervals/repeats earlier last month with the school tri club. We do them on the road though, not the track. Maybe doing intervals with a group of fellow runners and/or with a coach who pushes you might help (like in my case).
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GaRebelRunner
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Posted: 10/28/03 - 08:31 Post subject:
I do my intervals on Wednesday or Thursday evenings around 5:30pm at Tucker High School. The only problem is with standard time, it's dark by 5:30 and there are no lights on the track, but it's not bad.
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 10/28/03 - 09:28 Post subject:
I have never seen the joy of intervals. Any track work seems to be a lot of work with a little pleasure, I could bust my rear on the road and have a blast but put me on the oval and forget it. Just remember the results!!!
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TriBob
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Posted: 10/28/03 - 09:38 Post subject:
You said it. They work.
I don't enjoy them until my next run when I can see improvement. This is the first year I have done them. I hope by next year to see a major difference.
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Dancer
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Posted: 10/28/03 - 11:19 Post subject:
Bottom Line-Intervals work!
They suck but when I finish a track workout I feel so good and glad that it's over until the next time!
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jrjo
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Posted: 10/28/03 - 11:41 Post subject:
I'm working on a theory about this kind of thing. Having been on the track team in high school, when everyone is invincible, those workouts on the oval were surreal looking back. I can't remember a split or what all specifically we did. There was just immeasureable faith in my coach and whatever he directed, I did. Mostly we ran quarters. And quarters. And quarters. All I recorded in my logs were the mileage totals, but I'd guess we'd run between 10 and 20. Being a kid with nothing to lose and hurling yourself around the track gave intervals a kind of existence all to themselves. It wasn't so much a workout as a proving grounds, a self-actualization, an experience like none other. I dare say no one on any team in our school pushed the envelope like us distance tracksters did each spring out there at a near sprint, lap after lap after lap.
So for me, intervals always brings me back to a time of feeling fast. And the burn and exhaustion of a good session compares to little else. Beyond the science and formulas of time and distance in an interval session, to me it's a workout that puts a glory day bounce in my stride.
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Happy2tri
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Posted: 10/28/03 - 17:59 Post subject:
| Dancer wrote: | Bottom Line-Intervals work!
They suck but when I finish a track workout I feel so good and glad that it's over until the next time! |
you are one smart woman!!! Intervals rock and pay big dividends, also they allow for week to week measurement of improvements in your times. Love the track, cannot wait for tommorrow nights track workout (every Wed. with Dancer and friends) 10x880 repeats with 220 jog between..
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spongebob
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Posted: 10/28/03 - 22:07 Post subject:
Beating people on Saturdays and setting Personal Bests make the track workouts exciting for me.
Not only are they a huge confidence builder, but the rush alone from the hella fast intervals are all I need to get geeked up. Every once in a while, I'll bust out a workout where all of my intervals average what an old PR for a single interval once was. Those days rock my face off.
I love doing a track workout and comparing my times to workouts I did one or two years ago. Seeing the improvement gets me excited about getting better.
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shelee
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Posted: 11/06/03 - 15:04 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | I kinda like them. There's something about waking up at 5:30 (way earlier than usual for me. I have to because I run at a high school track and it's reserved from 7:30-til) and hauling arse around the track that I enjoy. The foggier, the better. Makes me feel like a better runner than I am. |
i have to agree. i do mine usually at night, though. it's not that they make me feel like a better runner than i am, it's that they make me faster...knowing that i can sustain a certain speed for the interval makes me think someday i'll be holding that speed for a longer distance. and i love how tired i am when i'm done with the session.
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Posted: 11/07/03 - 11:42 Post subject:
I love to do them but really hate sometimes when I do them but remember how much I feel I have accomplished when I did them.
Kind of confusing but I love to hate them but know they are great. I know that I have done a good quality run when I am done.
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blueskies
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Posted: 11/07/03 - 12:25 Post subject:
All I've got to do is think about my base-building stage and I have an appreciation for intervals. They add variety! Plus, it's fun to run fast. Learning to run hard also helps me in the races.
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shelflifers
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Posted: 11/07/03 - 19:03 Post subject:
nicely worded, jrjo... 
(and yes, I'm an interval 'hata' as well)
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/07/03 - 22:51 Post subject:
I don't mind them because I only (used to) do repeats. I hope to incorporate intervals now that I'm beginning on low LSDs again. I never worried about speed before, because I am soooo slow... but then I didn't really care, and so I never worried about speed work or intervals. I like hillwork, and take-it-easy style farleks (I defined my own).
This time around since I'm going against doc's orders anyhow, and eating really well and taking care of my bod I would like to do the best I can, which means not just sitting around complaining that I'm slow without really making the effort to change that. So, intervals, here I come... 
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