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SEIf race pace always feels awkward in training, there is usually a reason.
Not because you are unfit. Because the training may be building everything around the race without building the race itself.
You can become very good at going faster than pace.
You can become very good at hurting.
You can become very good at short reps with clean recoveries and still feel oddly disconnected from the exact rhythm the event is going to demand.
That is what makes this so frustrating. The runner is not short on effort. They are not short on work. They are often not even short on speed.
They are short on familiarity with the actual shape of the race.
So race pace turns up and feels strangely foreign. Not impossible. Just not lived in. Not settled. Not normal.
That is a different problem from lacking fitness.
And it usually needs a different kind of session than people think.
Comment 5K and I’ll ask what’s missing.
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