Fitness
Anaerobic Threshold Pace
Anaerobic threshold pace is the fastest steady effort you can hold near lactate balance—key for endurance performance between easy runs and VO2 intervals.
Anaerobic threshold pace—often near lactate threshold—is the fastest sustainable effort where lactate production and clearance stay balanced, roughly hour-race intensity for trained runners. Training at and slightly below this pace raises endurance performance.
It differs from VO2 max intervals and easy zone-2 work.
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How do you find threshold pace without a lab?
Use a thirty-minute time trial—average pace of the last twenty minutes approximates threshold—or perceived exertion at “comfortably hard” speech difficulty.
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