Dazzle,
Welcome to the forums! Well done on committing to the week of slow.
At the simplest level, 80/20 Zone 1 is where we want you for this week. We did not add that in the book as we didn’t want athletes to jump ahead, and really wanted athletes to challenge themselves on what slow could mean to them.
The real purpose is to give you a new spectrum and definition of slow.
I think your comment “that bears no resemblance to regular training whatsoever” is what we’re trying to challenge. What if that IS your ideal level of easy training? What if you’re been in the moderate intensity rut for so long you can’t identify slow any longer?
Fortunately, once you get to Chapter 4 and we introduce Zone 1 and 2, you’ll have a quantifiable level of slow.
David