The painfully slow running….
I’m currently in the painfully slow running period. I did not experience this when I first read TfNA and TfUA 5 and 10 years ago and started trying to train this way.
4 years ago I started having some knee trouble, and running fell of in favor of skiing hiking and biking. now I’ve have two spine surgeries in the last 2 years and am clawing my way back slowly.
I just moved past run/walk intervals and into 20+ minute runs, with the rest of my base training walking or on a bike. on flat pavement my AeT pace seems to be around 13:30 per mile. it’s running but barely!! I’m seeing solid progress and I know this works, but you know, it’s slow
Side note I’m using Suunto Zonesense and really happy with it. it’s in the same ballpark as drift testing, with some changes that seem to make sense when I’m tired. it’s also nice since I’m doing 3 or more sports all the time to not feel like I need to test constantly for all to sports.
TLDR: Running this slow is hard, but I know it will pay off.