250 strides?
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Iron Man posted 1 year ago.
its def not 250Spm that would make you look like you were running on the spot, maybe it's like 4X250 strides as in 200m around an oval or a track. or building speed of the interval
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RV posted 1 year ago.
In my plan one of the several strides workout is as follows:
Strides (this is best outdoors but may be done on a treadmill).
Warm up
Then 4-5x20 seconds fast on soft, gentle downhill. Approximately 400m race pace. Not all out. Relax. Walk and hop back to start point during each recovery. Hop 30 times on right leg and then 30 times on left leg (hops are to build foot/leg strength). Zone 1 cool down.
So, that is what my plan identifies for strides. Not sure if that helps - the plan should have defined what it wants you to do.
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jmruns430 posted 1 year ago.
I think whoever is assuming you are running on a 250 yard track, almost the same as a 200m track, strides are generally part of a warm up or warm down, a fast pace to warm and loosen you up, but not quite interval pace, focus on form while holding a comfortable speed.
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djrez4 posted 1 year ago.
RV;64144 wrote:
Not sure if that helps - the plan should have defined what it wants you to do.
The plan is flawed! It's supposed to be the main set of the run, as follows:
*RUN 0:45*
15:00 warm up jog, gradually bringing the intensity up to 65-70%
Stride Drills:
4 x "250 strides" on 5:00 interval
(This means to begin each one, every five minutes.)
Focus on increasing the speed of your leg turnover while forcing
your HR to stay under 75% the entire time.
Cool down completely, bringing your HR back down to 60% by the end.
Ok... I went a few weeks back and looked at a workout that I skipped and it said this:
This set will help you work on increasing your foot speed, without letting your HR get any higher than 75%. We'll do this by counting strides -- remember, two steps = one stride -- rather than timing the intervals:
4 x 250 strides (should be around 3:00-3:30) @75% w/2:00 relaxed jogging after each
So it sounds like I'm just supposed to focus on counting strides? Everything I've read says I should be running at around 90-95 spm and no less than 80 spm, so this would be a little under 3 minutes of counting strides with a little over 2 minutes of rest. I still don't think I get it, but I'm gonna go try it out and see what happens.
-Dave
If anyone happens to be able to answer this within the next 5 hours, that'd be killer. I'm supposed to do a run tomorrow that involves doing 4 x "250 strides" on 5:00 intervals. I can immediately think of two things that 250 strides might mean. My first guess is that I'm supposed to try to maintain 250 spm. The second is that I'm supposed to somehow do something that involves 250 actual strides, but I don't know exactly what. I'm hoping it's not 250 spm, because that would suck a bit, I think.
What is this mysterious "250 strides?"
-Dave