sandam1
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Based on this answer, I'm going to ask another question - what is your purpose behind increasing your run intervals? I ask this because I know that a lot of people think that the key faster paces is lengthening the run interval and it doesn't quite work like that. I know that I can get the same pace using anywhere between a 15 to 45 second run and 30 second walk. Obviously, I waste a lot of extra energy doing a 45 second run so I want to do the shortest run interval that is both comfortable (i.e. not sprinting) and gets me the pace that I want. By your statement, it seems like you should be able to get the same pace at 60/30 as you do at 2:00/1:00.
Now yes, at some point if you want faster paces, you will have to run longer, but I only increase my run intervals when I cannot hit the paces comfortably using my current run intervals.
Because runners like numbers that end in 5's and 0's. I know that someone said that at one point Jeff Galloway was using something like a 22 second run and 17 second walk and just the thought made me - and several other people that were part of the conversation - twitch. I also realize that going from a 15 second run to a 30 second run, I was doubling my run time. Well, of course, it was going to be hard. Bumping it up by 5 seconds at a time was much more do-able.
