I was in a long tempo run tonight for 10 miles. I could feel that one of my shoe laces was coming loose (mile 5), so I stopped and retied both and then calf started cramping, so I streched it out. My next mile was obviously much faster than the 5th mile. At mile 8 I came to a train and had to stop for a couple minutes again.
So, my question is it bad to stop during a tempo run… are you loosing some of the affects from the run with having rest?? I was happy with overall time averaged 6:50, but unsure if I could have held that pace without the rest…
I think you need to run through the train with you shoes untied.
A run is a run, I doubt the difference between what you did and what you planned would make a measurable difference in training effect. You might be over thinking this a bit.
No idea. But I can empathize. If I stop for ~40 seconds to tie my shoe (and take off/put on gloves), my legs definitely “freshen” up. Sort of like a soft restart of a run.
I was in a long tempo run tonight for 10 miles. I could feel that one of my shoe laces was coming loose (mile 5), so I stopped and retied both and then calf started cramping, so I streched it out. My next mile was obviously much faster than the 5th mile. At mile 8 I came to a train and had to stop for a couple minutes again.
So, my question is it bad to stop during a tempo run… are you loosing some of the affects from the run with having rest?? I was happy with overall time averaged 6:50, but unsure if I could have held that pace without the rest…
Why didn’t you just turn around and go back the way you came while the train was blocking your path? Then turn around again and keep going?
I think you WANTED to stop.
I was in a long tempo run tonight for 10 miles. I could feel that one of my shoe laces was coming loose (mile 5), so I stopped and retied both and then calf started cramping, so I streched it out. My next mile was obviously much faster than the 5th mile. At mile 8 I came to a train and had to stop for a couple minutes again.
So, my question is it bad to stop during a tempo run… are you loosing some of the affects from the run with having rest?? I was happy with overall time averaged 6:50, but unsure if I could have held that pace without the rest…
I’m not a very good runner, but have read Daniels Running Formula front to back probably a couple times by now (I know…)
Seems to me like nothing diffferent from a cruise interval set, but with very short intervals for such a long threshold run. He pretty much says ~1-2 mile cruise intervals at tempo pace, or straight tempo run with equivalent work time, have the same physiological impact since the short rest intervals (usually ~1min or less) are mostly to make the workout easier psychologically and are too brief to drop you significantly out of threshold by the time you start the interval.
If you want to be real anal, just subtract your estimated rest times from the threshold portion of the run to get your “true” threshold duration, that would be what, like 60 seconds?
I’m not a very good runner, but have read Daniels Running Formula front to back probably a couple times by now (I know…)
Winner! Basically you (the OP, that is, not “unclerock”) just turned a tempo run into a Cruise Interval workout. I think you can relax about any negative effects. In the end, you spend a lot of time right in that zone and that’s what you need to do to produce the training effect you want. I think the difference is negligible. In fact, by breaking things up this way, a Cruise interval set actually lets you spend more time in that zone…
You probably would’ve missed the train if you hadn’t stoppped to tie your shoe.
Tieing your shoe not just threw off your workout but probably everyone else’s within a 50 mile radius. Good news is someone on the train saw you stopped and thought “hey when I get home today I’ll go for a run myself”.
Think of it as interval training it will definitely train your heart for race training ramping up high, then resting for a short period will probably help you more than hurt you. As long as you’re not stopping for ~5 min then you should be alright. If you don’t do it during every single tempo run there isn’t much of a problem with it.
