 Hey guys, today, I'm gonna answer a question and at the end of this video I want you to post your question in the comments and then I'll do a Q&A in an upcoming video But to answer today's question, it's from Javier Rodriguez and he wants to know if easy Running is equivalent with conversational pace, right? So let's get into that. So a lot of times you hear people talk about How to gauge intensity, right? And you can do it by heart rate. You can do it by listening to your breathing If you're very advanced, you could do it by lactate testing And of course you can do it by pace if you know your race times You can use something like the V-DOT calculator to Calculate what an easy pace will be like for you And you can also just forget everything and just go by feel But it takes some experience to know what easy pace truly is And one of the best ways to do it is to just do it as what's known as conversational pace, right? I'm sure you've heard that term It means exactly what it sounds like. It means a pace where you're comfortable holding a conversation All right, so if you're out running with your mates or Maybe you're out running by yourself. You can pretend you have an invisible friend next to you if you're able to Talk full sentences without having to gasp for air, right? If you're able to hold a conversation without much effort That's conversational pace as soon as you start having to draw your breath in the middle of a sentence You know stuff like that. That's when you're getting into moderate type of territory another way I like to do it is to imagine that someone called you on your phone and You need to just talk to them a little bit if you're able to Talk in such a way that you could convince them that you're not even out running, right? If you could tell them like hey, I'm just outside I'm standing here. I'm just out for a very very slow walk If you could convince them that's the case then you're running easy But if you're having trouble hiding the fact that you're actually breathing pretty steady, then you're not running easy Okay, so yes Javier he he asked his conversational pace easy pace and that's that's true It is if you're able to hold a conversation That's fine. That's a great way of gauging Easy when it comes to running and we all know easy running is where it's at for most of your volume Okay, so in a given week you might have some quality sessions, etc. You should But most of your kilometers or miles are probably going to be easy Okay, and there's a lot of benefits to easy running. We've talked about it in the past We'll talk about it in the future But for now, let's just say easy running is great for everyone at every level and a great way to gauge it is Is it conversational? Can you hold the conversation? That's a good test. So that's it. That's the question Thanks for your question Javier. If any of you have a question post a comment down below and I'll answer it in the next video where I'll do a Q&A All right. Thanks for watching subscribe like check out my Instagram link in the description and Stay tuned for more videos. I'm gonna try to get more regular about it now. All right. See ya