Originally Posted by koffee brown
The emphasis on intervals is the time from work to recovery. I don't think the question could be answered unless you know what kinds of intervals you're doing, how long, and what your heart rate is for the efforts.
Koffee
Good call Koffee.
I like zone training based on RPE instead of HRM but that is a nother thread. To me intervals defined are "the time between repeating cycles of varing intensitites". Recovery is the thing that I am looking for when I try and understand what sort of training that is being done -I look for whether its intensive or extensive in nature- wheather you give your self total recovery (intensive) OR if you don't wait after the desent and just start climbing again OR you stop 3/4 way down the hill and turn around to hit it even sooner and so on and so on. What really hits hard is when you still feel uncomfortable in your breathing and then turn around and hit it again(extensive=not giving your self total recovery). But you don't have to go breathless to do an interval -did you know intervals can also be aerobically done and be very benifical even in a warm up?
Velocity