Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a solo episode for you.

Today's episode is Long Intervals Simplified.

So this is part of a series of episodes I've been doing. I started them out with an episode that is titled Endurance Training Simplified.

And after I recorded that one, it is actually episode 344 for those of you wondering, I thought to

myself, this is a fun episode 344, for those of you wondering, I thought to myself, this is a fun

episode to simplify things for people who either new to endurance training or have been doing

it or just a little bit of confused about maybe how to structure their workouts, where to start,

where to place them, and things like that.

And although it's definitely not a like blueprint as to this is the

best way to prepare for your race or any race for that matter, I do think it simplifies it

enough where it gives people some clear, actionable things to think about and really,

really get good at before you start getting overly creative and overly structured with like what I would maybe call

like fancier workouts and fancier structures and things like that. I don't think there's

nothing necessarily wrong with getting creative with your workouts, especially if it makes it

more exciting and gets you out the door, so to speak. I just think there's a lot that can be learned

by really kind of narrowing it down to just a few intensities that are going

to be very important to learn, understand, recognize the perceived effort of, and then just

master those really well before you start adding some of that other stuff in a lot of cases.

So I thought that would be a valuable episode.

Once I recorded it, I realized the different

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