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You’re not a runner if you don’t do intervals
All right, it’s a provocative story title, by design. But I’m serious too — if you’re into running, do intervals already. If you run with any meaningful regularity, you are already making a huge effort, you know the joy and the pain of running. Why not raise the quality of some of your miles? Intervals will be a transformational experience in your running journey, trust me.
I recently ran a sub-3-hour marathon and I brag a lot about it. You can read about it here:
I couldn’t do it without doing a lot of intervals.
But that’s not the point. Of course, running a marathon is not every runner’s goal.
I started doing interval training before I had any plans to run a marathon, any marathon, let alone a fast one.
I don’t remember exactly when I started doing intervals systematically but it was in the spring of 2020. I’d always run, for many years, but never intervals. I once challenged one of my sons to a one-mile race and choked. I wrote about it here:
