My goal of sub 4:00 1500-I will not stop until I reach my goal.

The Letsrun message board will shut down when he breaks 4.

Here is the schedule which I going to do for this yrs track season. I am looking for 4:00.

I have came off a successful xc season and run milage of approx 40 miles per week- however I count time on legs rather than milage and I am 17.

I will do these these two sessions throughout april- july however I will drop core excercises when I have a big race on that week.

Core exercises/circuits x 1 – leg raises, superman, bridge, plank, crunches, squats, squat thrusts, burpees

Polymetrics before 1 main session- skips: fast, hight, distance hops, bounding, high knees, quick steps, lunges, vertical jumps, forward jumps

March 27th- 2nd April

6 x 1k, 2 min rec

Progressive run 2k/2k/2k

1500 predictor session- 400 (45 secs) 800 (90 secs) 300 (5 min rec) x 2

2 x easy runs of 25-30 mins with 5 x 100m strides after 1 of the runs

1 x long run of 50 mins

april 3rd- 10th

2 x 4 x 2 mins with first 30 sec@1500m pace, 90 sec rec and 5 min btw sets

3 mile run, every mile 200m sprint,

2 x 5 x 300m @ 1500m pace 90 sec rec and 5 mins, 200m flat out to finish

2 x easy run 25-30 mins

1 x long run of 50 mins

april 11-18

3k race

35 min run – 5 min easy, 5 min hard

2 x 200+400+200 with 1 min, 2 min, 10 min rec @ 800m pace

3 x 4mins , 1 min rec, 30 sec sprint 4 min rec

2 x easy runs

April 19-25

5 x 1km 2 min rec

2 x 4 x 400 @ 1500m pace, 90 sec rec, 5 min sets

1500m race

2 x easy runs of 25-30 mins with 5 x 100m strides after 1 of the runs

1 x long run of 50 mins

April 26- 2

4 x 1km 2 min rec

350, 300, 250,200,150 full rec

2 x easy runs of 25-30 mins with 5 x 100m strides after 1 of the runs

1 x long run of 50 mins

May 3- 9

2 x 1500m races

5-4-3-2-1 with 2 min rec

2 x easy runs of 25-30 mins with 5 x 100m strides after 1 of the runs

1 x long run of 50 mins

May 10-16

25 min @LT with 400m flat out

2 x 600 , 600 , 400 with 2 min rec and 5 min sets

4 x 1km with 3 min rec

2 x easy runs of 25-30 mins with 5 x 100m strides after 1 of the runs

1 x long run of 50 mins

May 17-24

Gerschler fartlek 30 sec hard with decreasing rest from 90-60-30 x 4

2 x 2 x 800 with 2 min rec and 5 min sets

1500m race

2 x easy runs of 25-30 mins with 5 x 100m strides after 1 of the runs

1 x long run of 50 mins

May 25-31

1k, 600, 400,300,200,100 rec 5,4,3,2,1

3 mile run, 200m sprint every mile

8 x 2 mins with 2 min rec

2 x easy runs of 25-30 mins with 5 x 100m strides after 1 of the runs

1 x long run of 50 mins

June 1-7

1500m race

2 x 500+300 with 1 min rec and 10 mins

2 x easy runs of 25-30 mins with 5 x 100m strides after 1 of the runs

1 x long run of 40 mins

June 8-15

4 x 200m@ 1500m 2 x 200@800 4 x 200@1500

90 sec rec and 5 min sets

1500m race- BIG

2 x easy runs of 25-30 mins

June 15-21

Gerschler fartlek 30 sec hard with decreasing rest from 90-60-30 x 4

june 17th- differations- will help with uneven paced races

2x 600/400 1st 600m@ 3k pace, next without rest 400m@ 1500m pace. 3 min rec btw reps so after both and 5 min rest before 200/200

3x 200/200 1st 200m @ 2 secs slower than 1500m pace (close to 34) 2nd 200m @ 2 secs quicker than 1500m pace ( close to 30) 2:30 min rec.

Short hill sprints

2 x easy runs

June 22-28

800m race

8 x 2 mins with 2 mins rec

2 x easy runs

1 x long run of 45 mins

June 28-5

Progressive run 2k/2k/2k

3 x 400@1500m 45 secs rec, 5 min rec , 2 x 400@800 90 secs rest, 10 mins 1 x 400@flat out

1500m race

6 july-13 july

2 x easy runs

4 x 200m@1500m 2 x 200m@800m

1500m championship race

Nice varied schedule, covers most things. Did you make it up yourself?

Just don't get hung up on trying to reproduce it perfectly. You don't know how you will feel on each day, and there will be good and bad weeks.

Also, don't try for 3 all-out sessions every week. Pick one of them for the key workout; the other two each week, try to run within yourself. Save mental energy for races.

thanks for your kind advice. i made it myself but i have done quite a lot of reading about the 1500m

Save not only mental energy, but your physical energy. You state you're 17... you may recover quicker than me, but I would argue you still need to recover. Rest is the best thing you can give your body. These workouts are going to tear you down, which is good. But the rest is where your body will rebuild itself to become stronger. Let it happen. You'll be surprised. Let your body recover. Time is on your side.

Three things sure in this life: death, taxes and you'll never keep to your planned training schedule. I have nearly 40 years experience of failed running intentions.

God Damn!

This Eddy Lee kid

WILL

NOT

STOP

GReaper wrote:

Three things sure in this life: death, taxes,...

and Eddy not stopping until he reaches his goal.

I believe, with all my heart, that eddylee can and will break 4 very soon.

the most important part is remembering why he does it, for fun and because he loves it, thats what will carry him through.

2010 Cal Poly Invitational

Results online at Phototiming.com

EVENT 26 MENS 1500m Run

NAME BIB AGE TEAM MARK MARK POINTS WIND

1 Brandon Shirck 128 Cal Poly 3:53.33

2 Roosevelt Cook 44 Cal Coast 3:54.32

3 Nathan Huerta 87 Cal Poly 3:54.35

4 Julian Derubira 373 UC Santa Barbara 3:54.53

5 Carl Dargitz 67 Cal Poly 3:55.37

6 Joseph Rivera 151 College of the Sequo 3:56.29

7 Andy Wright 143 Cal Poly 3:58.47

8 Ryan Jackson 396 UC Santa Barbara 3:58.55

9 David Sanchez 152 College of the Sequo 3:58.64

10 Leif Anderson 49 Cal Poly 3:58.77

11 Andrew Ochoa 150 College of the Sequo 4:00.14

12 Steven Norton 504 UCLA 4:01.02

13 Oscar Pena 172 Cuesta College 4:02.59

14 Travis Hallanan 160 Cuesta College 4:03.07

15 Tyler Brady 358 UC Santa Barbara 4:03.34

16 Edward Lee 20 CSU Bakersfield 4:03.90

17 Bisrat Zerehaimanot 532 UCLA 4:04.77

18 Sean King 309 Pepperdine 4:06.13

19 Kenny Smith 324 Pepperdine 4:07.24

20 Spencer Doolittle 579 UNATTACHED 4:08.86

21 Wesley Blundell 297 Pepperdine 4:10.20

22 Nicholas Cramer 581 UNATTACHED 4:12.12

23 Roberto Rodriguez 574 UNATTACHED 4:14.69

24 Ramon Guzman 147 College of the Sequo 4:15.33

25 Jason Brosseau 533 UNATTACHED 4:15.52

26 Jose Orozco 35 CSU Bakersfield 4:16.02

27 Michael Marlin 583 UNATTACHED 4:16.49

28 Harley Richaards 580 UNATTACHED 4:23.82

29 Andrew Ariey 582 UNATTACHED 4:29.25

He also doubled with a 1:58 800. Nice races, Eddy!

Thanks, Ron and Boingo!

Windy conditions up there in SLO, but it was a very satisfying day.

The 15 was split into two heats. I had a very clean start, getting good position around the first 200m. Sitting in 4th, the 400 split was 64. Leaders may have been at 63. There is a surge at 450, and I maintain contact with the second group while the lone surger breaks away. On the homestretch of the second lap, I surge up to the leader. At 800, the leader and I hit 208(64,64). I surge past him @ 850 cause I felt the pace slow down a bit. I come through the 1200 in 313(64). At this point, I said, "Ok...sub47 last 300 and you got it." I feel myself change gears on the back stretch, but that damn wind...and/or... my fitness...haha probably fitness...caused that "change of gears" to last maybe 50m. Two Cal Poly guys surged past me at 1275m(Leaf Barnes one of them)...and well...that was the end. 50second last 300m. I could not respond to the surge of the Cal Poly guys...good race fellas.

PR in the 800 :-D

... just second time getting under the 2min barrier. HA!! Man, i suck.

After breaking in on the back stretch, I took the lead. I pushed the first lap, but I slowed down a bit after seeing the clock @ 350. I came by in 58. My teammate surged past me at 500m, and I go with him(!!!F!!! Why didn't I do this in the 15??!!!) I surged past him @ 650 and took the lead. A Fresno St. runner out sprinted me for the win in the last 15m :(

My race @ USC(2weeks ago) was way different:

67,65,64,48=404

How is training going, Boingo and Ron??

Cheers!!!

oops...I meant Leif Anderson.

way to go for it in each race, eddy, and solid 800m pr for someone with the goal of breaking 4, as I understand it.

Hey Eddy are you running at UCLA next week? I know last year you ran at some of their meets.

Yes, I'll be at UCLA this coming Friday.

This is the best running documentary I have watched since Fire on the Track. I will almost be sad when eddylee breaks 4 if it means this thread has to die.

Question is, will he stop if he does that? He can do it but better training would be helpful.