Hi Everyone 🙂 I have my first Variable Intensity workout coming up next week and I’m little confused by one bit. It says that MAS is a pace that I could hold for about 6 minutes, and it says that’s Zone Y to Zone 4. However, my recent fitness test was a mile run I did in 7:00 (probably should have been faster, paced myself to hot from the start). My Zone 4 is 8:03 to 7:09. So I’m confused because that doesn’t line up with the ‘could hold for 6 minutes’. That pace for me would be about 6:30-6:45 based on my mile test (I segmented out my fastest 6 minutes), but of course I could hold high end zone 4 low zone 5 for 6 minutes.
So, not sure if I should just ignore the part about 6 minutes as reference, and just aim Zone Y/Zone 4 for MAS. Or maybe I’m totally confusing things here 😛
Thanks!
-Ryan