Seth, I have a video request! Would you consider making a video about periodization? Specifically what type of run you would start mixing in and their frequencies in different periods? I think this would be a great addition to your race planning videos and especially to this video! Thanks for all you do! Devin Vennard
The are lots of hills over the Channel in England and if your lucky you may even love near a mountain. However none of them will really give you the altitude workout that Seth gets running up his mountains.
QD: Long runs, with no particular pace target, when the weather is good. Just being out there, not thinking about anything, just enjoying the nature, the sky, fresh air...
@@yoojyim9560 I guess it depends on your level and your goal. I personally don’t walk during my runs, even long ones, but if you’re new to running or getting back to running after a long break, I guess it could be good to walk a bit from time to time.
QOD I did a half marathon where the first 5 miles was all up hill with 860ft gain in elevation. This was only my 2nd half, but the best run I did for preparation was 8k on the treadmill. 4k at around race pace and then sent the treadmill up to 4% incline for the remaining 4k to see what pace I could hold. It really helped me get to the top knowing I had pushed hard but not burnt out.
A run type I like to use is a "scouting" run (or maybe a "confidence" run). For example, in preparation for my 100K race last year, I ran the 43 mile Black Forest trail in PA (of which the race used the entirety) to learn all the turns, which was crucial because the race was mostly unmarked. I've done that with other long, unmarked mountain races as well.
Progressive intervals where the intervals get shorter but you go faster. IFor example 3 miles at threshold, 3mins rest, 1x1 mile at 10k pace, 90secs rest, 2x1k at 5k pace off 60secs rest between, 3mins rest, 4x200m at 1500m pace off 30secs rest. I love these sessions because they teach you to go faster as you get more tired.
tune up races are a great run type. These days can take the form of FKTs or time trials but they're important to help push yourself and see where your fitness is at. 2nd favourite is progression runs. Did one for last Half marathon plan, 6 miles easy, 3 miles steady, 3 miles at HMPace.
QD: hill repeats. I like to do something like 15x1 min repeats near the beginning and then at the end of a training block for a peak trail race. It reminds the legs of their power and what they can do when otherwise we might be a little too cautious during a race on uphill segments.
HR Monitor - Maybe too much wireless equipment nearby, maybe try to taking out away from house, maybe set it up at the park/track where not much wireless/wifi around.
QOD: My favourite is basically any trail run, which usually happens to be my weekend long, 2hr+ runs. When actively training, I use the "Run Less, Run Faster" program which, in addition to weekly 2-3 sessions of cross training (rowing, swimming, or cycling), includes 3 run types: intervals, threshold and long run. It has worked wonders for a weekend runner. You need to buy the book to get the program, but it works wonders to improve and get an idea of what works best for you.
QOD I like 30k long runs the best with a variety in the run of a mixture of road, trails, hills, just feels satisfying to finish the long run plus think it is the most benefit for half marathons & marathon races 👍🏼
First video I watched from you since quite a few months. You worked on your technique, running form during that time. It is obvious. At least, how you land and toe-off is way better than it was last year. It was even nice to look at your gait, running style. Wasn't before. Good job.
Fast-finish long runs are one of my favs. Ex. 6mi@LR>8mi@Aerobic Threshold>2mi@Anaerobic Threshold. Sort of a progression/tempo run. For a fast workout Yasso 800's are almost as fun as fartlek.
Beside the 13 types of run you mentioned I consider hill sprints very important. Over time short hill sprints proved to work out very well for me. Helps a lot when trying to build strength and correct your running form. Usually I incorporate these in a easy day run.
Great topic! It’s hard to pick just one favorite run type... Track workouts like 6x1mile or a pyramid 400m, 800m, 1200m, 1600m, 1600m, 1200m, 800m, 400m. Long runs with the last half consisting of a negative split to help simulate a race and finishing strong. Short or middle distance runs with varied hills and grades to help strengthen the legs. Performing fartleks with fellow runners.... as you don’t know when the next pace pick up will come next. The ability to react to others actions is so important in a race.
This video is the best one on the entire channel to date @Seth James DeMoor ! I keep going back to this video and sharing it with people that are new to running and experienced. Valuable content man!
In the 80's we didn't use terms like threshold or tempo, we just did runs with 20-30 running club mates of different abilities. Groups formed naturally within the 20-30, of runners of similar capability. We just tried to keep the next fastest group in sight ahead and ran at about 3-5 mins per mile slower than our 10mile race pace. So depending on the day, it ended up being what people nowadays call tempo or threshold, depending on whether we did the first few miles relaxed or 'at-it' from the start. Odd how there are no TH-camrs filming their runs with groups of their clubmates now.
@@okantichrist I guess it's just me not understanding a modern thing. Solitary runs shared on film to hundreds of others online instead of just going running with a group
Hey Seth, I do a 3km pain run, once a month on the exact same route. Some people may call it a threshold run, but I call it a pain run. It helps me quantify my improvements from month to month. No races until June 😪
My favourite kind of run is a watch free trail or mountain run with gps in my pack instead! Far more spontaneous for distances/pacing but it helps me to be a lot more mindful with how my body is truely feeling rather than relying on a device to pace/determine how I’m doing!
QD: combination of long run and vertical run. I'll take a mountain-based loop or single mountain with repeats for 4000-6000 feet of elevation gain, sometimes in as little as 10 miles, that will still take me more than two hours to complete based on technicality and steepness. Love these- they don't always look impressive mileage wise, but they really help build up strength in the legs and my ability to move efficiently in the mountains for hours at a time.
Seth, a detailed training block plan would be amazing! At this point I am figuring out how to plan my Marathon Training block. the race is 13 weeks away. Thank you so much :)
There is so much information in your videos! I wish you wrote a book so that I could easily process this information and get back to it. Anyway, thanks for putting the time share your knowledge with us and doing it with positive energy. :qod: Tempo runs
QD- I love combining 2 of your types. My favorite run is working a progression run into the long run. So fun and helps with confidence! A type I like that you didn’t mention is indicator runs. Basically a time trial somewhere from 3K to 1/2 marathon, depending on your goal race. I like doing these indicator runs 2-3 times in the training block to see where I start and if the training is working.
QD: I love long runs it just peaceful and it a good way to spend time. Stay healthy and improve my running abilities and increase my distance when I run.
Hill repeats, to build strength I run in the woods once a week (interval). Yesterday I did 3 sets of 6 times 150m uphill (hard). When training for longer distances we use a longer hill, like 8x800m uphill. It Just makes me run so much easier during longruns or when I am doing a lactate session (flat).
QotD: during oct, nov and part of Dec I was doing a 60 min threshold run and a 25 min max effort session within my weekly schedule. I'd say that my favourite session is either yasso 800s (3k w/u followed by 12 - 14 x 800 - each 800 being the time you expect your next marathon to take, but change from hours and minutes to minutes and seconds - eg if marathon will take 3 hour 20 minutes, then each 800m will be 3 mins 20 secs + a 400m recovery between each set at half the pace of the 800s. My next favourite session includes 10 x 200 hard effort + 1 min recovery followed by 2 x 5k pyramids in 1k increments going from zone 1 to zone 5
QD: my favorite type of runs are Steady/tempo middle distance runs and Threshold runs...but i like to do intervals too lol...pretty good french accent Seth lol 👏👏👌🇫🇷😉🇫🇷
TYPING IT OUT SO I DON'T FORGET: The 13 types of runs 1) Easy runs 2) Steasy runs (peppy easy or easy when you aren't high mileage yet) 3) Steady runs 4) Tempo runs (a longer run at a difficult pace) 5) Threshold runs (shorter and harder than tempo, at or just under lactic threshold) 6) Fartlek runs (for when you want to mix it up and laugh at silly words) 7) Progression run (starts easy, works up towards threshold over 4-whatever miles) 8) Interval runs (track workout, ladders are my favorite) 9) Middle distance run (long runs that aren't as long as your long run) 10) Longs runs (2 hours at least is ideal for 13.1, 26.2, ect.) 11) Vertical runs (for those crazy mountain people) 12) Tired leg runs (two other runs that unusually close together) 13) Mental runs (for when you've gone mental) i've never done fartlek or progression, and i don't do enough miles to have a solid difference between 1,2, and 3. That means i use 6/13 of these.
QD: Practically all my runs are long easy runs. Started jogging about a year ago and need to build a base! So much easier to go out and try to jog for an hour or two than to threshold.
QD: in high school and college I always enjoyed a solid track session. Now that I am old and training for marathons I have a new appreciation for the long run.
I love interval runs. I love going fast and then slower. It helps build confidence for me. I get confused with tempo and threshold runs. Have heard they are kind of the same.
Fartleks are my favourite run type, I think it's actually the majority of my training, possibly shouldn't be! I do also like the 2 hour runs though, tend to do a few a week when I'm back at sea level
:QOD: I don't live in a Mountainous place, but I have plenty of hills around me, I agree with Seth and put in a lot of slow hilly running at the beginning of training block for a marathon to strengthen the legs. Their is one run type that Seth didn't mention that I use towards the end of a marathon training block and that is a long run with a fast finish. This would be a 20 mile run with 16 miles at about 90 seconds per mile slower than race pace. Then winding up the pace over the last 4 miles aiming to run the last mile quicker than target pace.
QD: My favorite run is kind of a product of COVID and all of my races getting cancelled last year. The test run or the screw it run. Just going out, finding a tough 30-45 mile route and just going full on balls out on it. Could just be treating your race that got cancelled as if it's still going on, like I did with Big Schloss 50k (6hr 36min). Could be treating a legendary local long run like a race like I did with the 41 mile stretch of the AT through Maryland (8hr 11min). Or it could be a multiday event kind of like what you did in leadville or what I did in the Adirondacks in replacement of the West Virginia Trilogy (160-165 miles, 55,000ish ft of gain and 36 out of 46 ADK high peaks in a week). I learned this year that for me the race getting cancelled or postponed does suck, but if you can transition that fitness into another run, trip or project that you've wanted to do for your whole life, it can be much, much more fulfilling to look back on when you compare it to a race you signed up for just because.
QD: My favorite type of run is a free run (which you didnt mention too)...it is usually a 5k for me, on tuesday, the first run of the week...and I just let my go as wild, or as easy, or as slow, sometimes as far, as I want to...On that run, I couldnt care less about the pace or even the conditions...Its the first run after a long run, and it is the perfect way to start "my running week" :) (it usually turns into a tempo run, and a PR, or one of the best 5k times)
QD: Long runs are my favorites because you get so many benefits from them. You forgot to mention VO2 max and anaerobic runs and paces for these types of run. Onward and upward!
Great video Seth! It's interesting that 80% of our runs should be easy, and yet more than 80% of the type of running that we can do is not considered easy.
I actually like a kinda of reverse interval training where you take a trail and go easy on the climb and hard on the descent to build technical skills and confidence !
I love the fartlek run!! Just love to play with speed!! Most of my runs are easy runs so Im not so sore, but love to throw in some speed. I often put in speed strides in the middle of a long run sometimes too!
I've always stressed tempo running as my bulk and it works for me. I probably trained using only 4 or 5 different types of runs(tempo, long runs, intervals and fartleks) when I was still competitive, and again, I think it worked well for me, however, quality miles instead of outright bulk mileage was something that I worked into and found that it had more positive results.
QoD - by far my favourite run type is the easy run... would be good to see a vlog on how to structure a training plan with all these different types of run... 😁
QD: Threshold Run is favorite, going fast but needs some mental push to finish on pace, so a rewarding run when thinking about it afterwards. I have put off Thresholds for about 6 weeks while I swap it out to complete my Interval Training block leading up to a half marathon.
Great video! Love the the layout to help see the entire scope of running. I also use a similar foundation as a runner and coach to my athletes.. extremely information. Thanks Seth!
Seth, go for a garmin watch (a fenix 6 or a forerunner 945) with a HRM run or HRM pro chest strap, garmin watches or much better for athletes like you! If you like I can help you (teams / zoom or hangouts) to walk you trough the settings, I have a lot of experience with running watches :-)
QD: going back to my high school version of fartleg pyramid track sessions: 200-400-800-1200-1600-1600-1200-800-400-200 all distances done at same pace w/400m jog between each run.
QD:. I think my long runs are my favorite. I normally do them at a steady or steazy type pace, and occasionally picking it up even more if I tag along with someone for a couple miles. I feel like a finely tuned machine afterwards. 😁👍
Seth’s HR monitor issues are clearly the result of a Coach Wetmore voodoo spell
ha.
just found this comment.
laughing over here.
4:03 - Easy
5:09 - Steasy
5:59 - Steady
6:37 - Tempo
7:33 - Threshold
8:34 - Fartlek
9:22 - Progression
10:15 - Interval
10:51 - Middle distance
11:44 - Long
13:01 - Vertical
13:51 - Tired legs
14:52 - Mental
Thank you.
Seth. Little tip. On vantage if the HR has a green fringe it is using wrist Hr, if blue it is using H10. 😉
Seth, I have a video request!
Would you consider making a video about periodization? Specifically what type of run you would start mixing in and their frequencies in different periods? I think this would be a great addition to your race planning videos and especially to this video! Thanks for all you do!
Devin Vennard
yep i second this!!
Long scenic technical trail runs!
I would love to do some vertical runs but yeah, living in The Netherlands.... Running up a bridge is probably the most vertical gain I can get
Treadmills my friend!
Hit up those car parking lots!
can definitely relate living in florida.
I envy you
The are lots of hills over the Channel in England and if your lucky you may even love near a mountain. However none of them will really give you the altitude workout that Seth gets running up his mountains.
QD: Long runs, with no particular pace target, when the weather is good. Just being out there, not thinking about anything, just enjoying the nature, the sky, fresh air...
Question, during long runs should we add in walks or run all the way thru?
@@yoojyim9560 I guess it depends on your level and your goal. I personally don’t walk during my runs, even long ones, but if you’re new to running or getting back to running after a long break, I guess it could be good to walk a bit from time to time.
QD: Vertical trail runs, for sure! I love the views and seeing God’s beautiful creation!
Sunday Runday and coffee are as good as it gets
QOD I did a half marathon where the first 5 miles was all up hill with 860ft gain in elevation. This was only my 2nd half, but the best run I did for preparation was 8k on the treadmill. 4k at around race pace and then sent the treadmill up to 4% incline for the remaining 4k to see what pace I could hold. It really helped me get to the top knowing I had pushed hard but not burnt out.
Love long runs because there is no stress , just enjoy the view , the music and even plan my week 😜💪🏼
A run type I like to use is a "scouting" run (or maybe a "confidence" run). For example, in preparation for my 100K race last year, I ran the 43 mile Black Forest trail in PA (of which the race used the entirety) to learn all the turns, which was crucial because the race was mostly unmarked. I've done that with other long, unmarked mountain races as well.
Progressive intervals where the intervals get shorter but you go faster. IFor example 3 miles at threshold, 3mins rest, 1x1 mile at 10k pace, 90secs rest, 2x1k at 5k pace off 60secs rest between, 3mins rest, 4x200m at 1500m pace off 30secs rest. I love these sessions because they teach you to go faster as you get more tired.
tune up races are a great run type. These days can take the form of FKTs or time trials but they're important to help push yourself and see where your fitness is at.
2nd favourite is progression runs. Did one for last Half marathon plan, 6 miles easy, 3 miles steady, 3 miles at HMPace.
QD: hill repeats. I like to do something like 15x1 min repeats near the beginning and then at the end of a training block for a peak trail race. It reminds the legs of their power and what they can do when otherwise we might be a little too cautious during a race on uphill segments.
HR Monitor - Maybe too much wireless equipment nearby, maybe try to taking out away from house, maybe set it up at the park/track where not much wireless/wifi around.
QOD: My favourite is basically any trail run, which usually happens to be my weekend long, 2hr+ runs.
When actively training, I use the "Run Less, Run Faster" program which, in addition to weekly 2-3 sessions of cross training (rowing, swimming, or cycling), includes 3 run types: intervals, threshold and long run. It has worked wonders for a weekend runner. You need to buy the book to get the program, but it works wonders to improve and get an idea of what works best for you.
QOD I like 30k long runs the best with a variety in the run of a mixture of road, trails, hills, just feels satisfying to finish the long run plus think it is the most benefit for half marathons & marathon races 👍🏼
First video I watched from you since quite a few months. You worked on your technique, running form during that time. It is obvious. At least, how you land and toe-off is way better than it was last year. It was even nice to look at your gait, running style. Wasn't before. Good job.
🙏🏻
Fast-finish long runs are one of my favs. Ex. 6mi@LR>8mi@Aerobic Threshold>2mi@Anaerobic Threshold. Sort of a progression/tempo run. For a fast workout Yasso 800's are almost as fun as fartlek.
Beside the 13 types of run you mentioned I consider hill sprints very important. Over time short hill sprints proved to work out very well for me. Helps a lot when trying to build strength and correct your running form. Usually I incorporate these in a easy day run.
Great topic! It’s hard to pick just one favorite run type...
Track workouts like 6x1mile or a pyramid 400m, 800m, 1200m, 1600m, 1600m, 1200m, 800m, 400m.
Long runs with the last half consisting of a negative split to help simulate a race and finishing strong.
Short or middle distance runs with varied hills and grades to help strengthen the legs.
Performing fartleks with fellow runners.... as you don’t know when the next pace pick up will come next. The ability to react to others actions is so important in a race.
This video is the best one on the entire channel to date @Seth James DeMoor ! I keep going back to this video and sharing it with people that are new to running and experienced. Valuable content man!
In the 80's we didn't use terms like threshold or tempo, we just did runs with 20-30 running club mates of different abilities. Groups formed naturally within the 20-30, of runners of similar capability.
We just tried to keep the next fastest group in sight ahead and ran at about 3-5 mins per mile slower than our 10mile race pace. So depending on the day, it ended up being what people nowadays call tempo or threshold, depending on whether we did the first few miles relaxed or 'at-it' from the start. Odd how there are no TH-camrs filming their runs with groups of their clubmates now.
Why do you think it’s odd ?🤔
@@okantichrist I guess it's just me not understanding a modern thing. Solitary runs shared on film to hundreds of others online instead of just going running with a group
Nice long sleeve shirt👌 Go Poland!!🇵🇱🤘
QD: Threshold runs they give me so much confidence going into my races
Hey Seth, I do a 3km pain run, once a month on the exact same route. Some people may call it a threshold run, but I call it a pain run. It helps me quantify my improvements from month to month. No races until June 😪
My favourite kind of run is a watch free trail or mountain run with gps in my pack instead! Far more spontaneous for distances/pacing but it helps me to be a lot more mindful with how my body is truely feeling rather than relying on a device to pace/determine how I’m doing!
As i have a track season coming up i would love a video explaining and breakdown of all the different interval sessions
QD: combination of long run and vertical run. I'll take a mountain-based loop or single mountain with repeats for 4000-6000 feet of elevation gain, sometimes in as little as 10 miles, that will still take me more than two hours to complete based on technicality and steepness. Love these- they don't always look impressive mileage wise, but they really help build up strength in the legs and my ability to move efficiently in the mountains for hours at a time.
Great video. I know that you hate heart rate analysis. But you running at 7 minute pace at 117 heart Rate is frankly amazing.
My spouse over heard the half marathon of pain comment and said wow that can't be fun!
Progressive middle distance or fast finish long run. I find these the most fun and rewarding, especially day to day between training cycles.
Woohooo early uploads! Good Sunday morning!
This so awesome I’ll be incorporating these running types into my workouts.👊🏾😊💪🏾🌿🔥🖤🏃🏾
Seth, a detailed training block plan would be amazing! At this point I am figuring out how to plan my Marathon Training block. the race is 13 weeks away. Thank you so much :)
I love a good TH-cam run on the couch during my rest days or when I’m struggling to motivate
QD: Long Run on the Trails, exploring or planned route, GREETINGS FROM SALZBURG/AUSTRIA!!!
This year I will run more and improve my running!
I would agree, my favourite is the Long Run! I've realised recently how much it improves my strength
There is so much information in your videos! I wish you wrote a book so that I could easily process this information and get back to it. Anyway, thanks for putting the time share your knowledge with us and doing it with positive energy.
:qod: Tempo runs
Great video as was just making my plan for this year. Keep it up dude. I'm loving a steady 8 mile run with hill sprints
QD- I love combining 2 of your types. My favorite run is working a progression run into the long run. So fun and helps with confidence!
A type I like that you didn’t mention is indicator runs. Basically a time trial somewhere from 3K to 1/2 marathon, depending on your goal race. I like doing these indicator runs 2-3 times in the training block to see where I start and if the training is working.
threshold run where I’m on the edge, but feeling the thrill of fast legs, strong heart, and hard effort
QD: I love long runs it just peaceful and it a good way to spend time. Stay healthy and improve my running abilities and increase my distance when I run.
My favorite is FARTLEKS and PROGRESSIONS and TEMPO/THERSHOLDS
14. Run races 🎉
Hill repeats, to build strength I run in the woods once a week (interval). Yesterday I did 3 sets of 6 times 150m uphill (hard). When training for longer distances we use a longer hill, like 8x800m uphill. It Just makes me run so much easier during longruns or when I am doing a lactate session (flat).
Thanks Seth, lots of new runs I didn't know of. Thank you. I will focus on long run, easy and threshold
QotD: during oct, nov and part of Dec I was doing a 60 min threshold run and a 25 min max effort session within my weekly schedule.
I'd say that my favourite session is either yasso 800s (3k w/u followed by 12 - 14 x 800 - each 800 being the time you expect your next marathon to take, but change from hours and minutes to minutes and seconds - eg if marathon will take 3 hour 20 minutes, then each 800m will be 3 mins 20 secs + a 400m recovery between each set at half the pace of the 800s.
My next favourite session includes 10 x 200 hard effort + 1 min recovery followed by 2 x 5k pyramids in 1k increments going from zone 1 to zone 5
Morning all like the progression run very much. A mix of different paces and distances!
QD: You forgot barefoot runs! Run in the grass or sand barefoot to work on run form and cadence!
14. Races. Racing frequently gets me used to the process and the hurt
QD: my favorite type of runs are Steady/tempo middle distance runs and Threshold runs...but i like to do intervals too lol...pretty good french accent Seth lol 👏👏👌🇫🇷😉🇫🇷
TYPING IT OUT SO I DON'T FORGET:
The 13 types of runs
1) Easy runs
2) Steasy runs (peppy easy or easy when you aren't high mileage yet)
3) Steady runs
4) Tempo runs (a longer run at a difficult pace)
5) Threshold runs (shorter and harder than tempo, at or just under lactic threshold)
6) Fartlek runs (for when you want to mix it up and laugh at silly words)
7) Progression run (starts easy, works up towards threshold over 4-whatever miles)
8) Interval runs (track workout, ladders are my favorite)
9) Middle distance run (long runs that aren't as long as your long run)
10) Longs runs (2 hours at least is ideal for 13.1, 26.2, ect.)
11) Vertical runs (for those crazy mountain people)
12) Tired leg runs (two other runs that unusually close together)
13) Mental runs (for when you've gone mental)
i've never done fartlek or progression, and i don't do enough miles to have a solid difference between 1,2, and 3. That means i use 6/13 of these.
My favourite and I do most progression runs 👍🏽👍🏼💪🏽🤲🏽 awesome video
Favorite run type is the long run, but the runner up is certainly the progression run.
Thanks Seth, just the job. Good to have an easy guide to come back and watch over when I wonder which direction my running is going!
QD: Long Runs and Vertical runs. Ironically how much I love uphill is the opposite for downhill 😅
QD: Practically all my runs are long easy runs. Started jogging about a year ago and need to build a base! So much easier to go out and try to jog for an hour or two than to threshold.
QD: in high school and college I always enjoyed a solid track session. Now that I am old and training for marathons I have a new appreciation for the long run.
I love interval runs. I love going fast and then slower. It helps build confidence for me. I get confused with tempo and threshold runs. Have heard they are kind of the same.
Fartleks are my favourite run type, I think it's actually the majority of my training, possibly shouldn't be! I do also like the 2 hour runs though, tend to do a few a week when I'm back at sea level
I enjoy starting easy runs and enjoy ending long runs.
QOD: I love a good long run. Definitely my favorite type as I just get out crank out the miles in solitude.
Long Runs are by far my favorite!
:QOD: I don't live in a Mountainous place, but I have plenty of hills around me, I agree with Seth and put in a lot of slow hilly running at the beginning of training block for a marathon to strengthen the legs. Their is one run type that Seth didn't mention that I use towards the end of a marathon training block and that is a long run with a fast finish. This would be a 20 mile run with 16 miles at about 90 seconds per mile slower than race pace. Then winding up the pace over the last 4 miles aiming to run the last mile quicker than target pace.
QD: I love to do long fartlek runs. This combines my two favorite runs, and I find this very beneficial but also fun.
QD: My favorite run is kind of a product of COVID and all of my races getting cancelled last year. The test run or the screw it run. Just going out, finding a tough 30-45 mile route and just going full on balls out on it. Could just be treating your race that got cancelled as if it's still going on, like I did with Big Schloss 50k (6hr 36min). Could be treating a legendary local long run like a race like I did with the 41 mile stretch of the AT through Maryland (8hr 11min). Or it could be a multiday event kind of like what you did in leadville or what I did in the Adirondacks in replacement of the West Virginia Trilogy (160-165 miles, 55,000ish ft of gain and 36 out of 46 ADK high peaks in a week).
I learned this year that for me the race getting cancelled or postponed does suck, but if you can transition that fitness into another run, trip or project that you've wanted to do for your whole life, it can be much, much more fulfilling to look back on when you compare it to a race you signed up for just because.
QD: My favorite type of run is a free run (which you didnt mention too)...it is usually a 5k for me, on tuesday, the first run of the week...and I just let my go as wild, or as easy, or as slow, sometimes as far, as I want to...On that run, I couldnt care less about the pace or even the conditions...Its the first run after a long run, and it is the perfect way to start "my running week" :) (it usually turns into a tempo run, and a PR, or one of the best 5k times)
love these vlogs!
Good breakdown of runs
QD: Long runs are my favorites because you get so many benefits from them. You forgot to mention VO2 max and anaerobic runs and paces for these types of run. Onward and upward!
Great video Seth! It's interesting that 80% of our runs should be easy, and yet more than 80% of the type of running that we can do is not considered easy.
Thanks for this video. It helps a ton
I actually like a kinda of reverse interval training where you take a trail and go easy on the climb and hard on the descent to build technical skills and confidence !
I love the fartlek run!! Just love to play with speed!! Most of my runs are easy runs so Im not so sore, but love to throw in some speed. I often put in speed strides in the middle of a long run sometimes too!
I've always stressed tempo running as my bulk and it works for me. I probably trained using only 4 or 5 different types of runs(tempo, long runs, intervals and fartleks) when I was still competitive, and again, I think it worked well for me, however, quality miles instead of outright bulk mileage was something that I worked into and found that it had more positive results.
Tempo or long runs would have to be my favorite. Going slow all week leaves me excited for my workout no doubt!
QoD - by far my favourite run type is the easy run... would be good to see a vlog on how to structure a training plan with all these different types of run... 😁
QD: Threshold Run is favorite, going fast but needs some mental push to finish on pace, so a rewarding run when thinking about it afterwards. I have put off Thresholds for about 6 weeks while I swap it out to complete my Interval Training block leading up to a half marathon.
i love the easy runs especially when my kids are joining on a step or skates.
Great video! Love the the layout to help see the entire scope of running. I also use a similar foundation as a runner and coach to my athletes.. extremely information. Thanks Seth!
Qod: I seem to enjoy the Failed run, where you go out with a plan and fail miserably. 😁 great vid.
psychological runs :) when i pr'd in the marathon in 2015, i did a 30 miler to get my mind right for the 26.2!
Seth, go for a garmin watch (a fenix 6 or a forerunner 945) with a HRM run or HRM pro chest strap, garmin watches or much better for athletes like you! If you like I can help you (teams / zoom or hangouts) to walk you trough the settings, I have a lot of experience with running watches :-)
I wish I had more time for long runs! I like to be home in time to make the family breakfast though.
QD: I love threshold runs! My pace for that is around 6:45. 😁
Thank you for this, Seth. I finally have documentation to prove to my wife on why I need 13 different pairs of sneakers.
Sunday runday!
I'm a long run lover Seth... although I'm partial to a progression run also
I wish I could do vertical runs...but non lointain nearby,only a few hills..
My favorite is tempo run, I feel great doing it
QD: going back to my high school version of fartleg pyramid track sessions: 200-400-800-1200-1600-1600-1200-800-400-200 all distances done at same pace w/400m jog between each run.
Seth, you're just a beast man, Happy New Years!!!
QD: Temporuns... fast faster fastest... I love those runs the most.. Love intervals also. always looking for different kind of intervals.
*Good Morning, DGR!*
I love long progression runs- almost maybe more than, racing. Also 2hour + trail runs.
QD:. I think my long runs are my favorite. I normally do them at a steady or steazy type pace, and occasionally picking it up even more if I tag along with someone for a couple miles. I feel like a finely tuned machine afterwards. 😁👍
QD: Long runs with 6-10 miles at goal marathon pace (and a big 8 mile warmup)!! Big confidence builder.
Great video as always. With the 13 types of runs, what is the difference between 'Easy' runs and 'Recovery' runs?