I heard something today I've never heard before...and I heard it twice in the couse of about 2 hours from 2 different places. I've probably never heard of it before because I've never been a runner, but it was pretty interesting.
Basically, its like taking an interval approach to races. Go as hard as you can for a period of time and then back off for a short bit & repeat. Guess its like contstant surging. Both people I heard it in relation to are known as extremely fast runners for triathletes...one is a former ITU #1 and the other is Mark Allen who made reference to it on that competitor radio podcast when he was talking about chasing down a competitor at the Nice triathlon. His quote was something to the effect of "if I wanted to catch him I couldn't race like a triathlete, I had to race like a runner. I ran as hard as I could for as long as I could, backed down a bit and then repeated it until I caught him". The former ITU #1 made reference to running 2k all out taking 30" and then repeating until the finish.
Maybe this is common among runners, but I guess I just have always run like a triathlete :) Something I may start to try in races to see if it helps.
Anyway, thought it was interesting at the very least.
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Basically, its like taking an interval approach to races. Go as hard as you can for a period of time and then back off for a short bit & repeat. Guess its like contstant surging. Both people I heard it in relation to are known as extremely fast runners for triathletes...one is a former ITU #1 and the other is Mark Allen who made reference to it on that competitor radio podcast when he was talking about chasing down a competitor at the Nice triathlon. His quote was something to the effect of "if I wanted to catch him I couldn't race like a triathlete, I had to race like a runner. I ran as hard as I could for as long as I could, backed down a bit and then repeated it until I caught him". The former ITU #1 made reference to running 2k all out taking 30" and then repeating until the finish.
Maybe this is common among runners, but I guess I just have always run like a triathlete :) Something I may start to try in races to see if it helps.
Anyway, thought it was interesting at the very least.
Fit2Tri Multisport
http://www.fit2tri.com