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Tenderloin
Im curious about ‘build runs’ which I see in training plans, and fellow athletes doing on strava. Am I right thinking these are runs where you steadily increase pace towards the end, and often done on the end of a long run to simulate running fast on tired legs at the end of a race?
Is your end pace usually your target race pace, or slightly quicker?
I tried one today and it made sense, increasing pace each km after halfway on a 10km run, ending up with the last km slightly quicker than 10km pace. Seems like a sensible thing to do sometimes, especially given I only run in races in tris so doing the pace on tired legs is valid. Equally if I ran that pace the whole run I’d be dead now, too tired probably to do turbo and swim tomorrow.
Am I missing the point?