The concept of descending intervals is usually that they offer a mentally easy way to maintain pace over the course of the workout even as you get physically or mentally tired.

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http://www.jt10000.com/

You should never go flat out when you're doing intervals, it really defeats the purpose of the workout. Guessing it is meant as a 10k/hm workout in which case you would work down to race pace or slightly below depending on volume of the workout. Say you run a 35 min 10k, then you might do 4-5x2k starting at 3:45/km and going 5s faster after each rep. This way you get practice at race pace when you are a bit fatigued, and can also help from going to hard in the beginning of a workout.
I've done a few descending workouts, but in those cases i mainly do a bit shorter stuff like 12x400 or 8x500. When I'm doing cruise intervals or a 10k wo I like splitting even paces just to get comfortable at that pace.

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Terrible Tuesday’s Triathlon

A link to the podcast could help.

This person could be a genius or a crackpot.

I didn’t want to say his name but it was a former Kona champion.

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It would take me 8 to 10 min to run 2K, can I assume you meant run?

With that length of effort I don't think I could stimulate VO2max mainly cuz I couldn't run fast enough for that long.

If I wanted to stimulate my ability to run at threshold I would likely run 4 of those, maybe 5 and finish the last one as quickly as I could.

If I wanted to practice pacing for a longer race then I might do 6 or 7 of those with a few min between them for a mental break.

If I wanted to run something similar to SST then I may do 4 to 10 of them to stimulate my endurance.

Many different things could be accomplished with that length of interval so I need some sort of context to judge effectiveness.

descending intervals are older than anyone on ST

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Brian Stover USAT LII
Accelerate3 Coaching
Insta

Does his name start with “M” and rhyme with “backer”?

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Aaron Bales
Lansing Triathlon Team

LOL 😂 yep

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