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OldSub4
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/28/2009 11:20PM - in reply to HSC Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

HSC wrote:

[quote]HSC wrote:

I am sure most would agree that for a :24/:25 200 runner, the best way for him to run sub 2:00 would be close to even splits. For this to happen wouldn't he need to work a lot on strength to be able to hold a :28 + or - first 200 so that he could finish with a :30/:31? If that is true, what would be the best workouts this time of the year to develop that strength?

Thanks.



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This thread has definately become quite long, but the answers to your question are all in this. My personal philosophy and experience is that the runner should be working 85% of the time on strength, but not let his CP systems and anaerobic systems atrophy, so while not too much speed work, at least some once per week (more of a half session on an off day of 3-4 200s). The general schedule of a tuesday interval 3-5k type workout (5*800) cutting down times, thursday tempo LT threshold work with a few quick short intervals at the end, and Saturday for some slightly more specific work at closer to mile pacing (something like an 8-6-5-4-3-2-1) progression. Sunday run of 50-60 minutes.

The times you would need to guage but if the goal is sub 2, then mile would be around 4:24-4:28 and 5k around 16minutes I am guessing for a typical HS runner (I am proably off). You could have the 5*800 be 245 cutting down to 225. Tempos at 545 pace. 2*3*200 in 32-30-28. 8-6-5 starting around 70 pace and working down faster than 800m pace by the 300m...

Check out the thread for more varied workouts at the various levels....
HSC
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/29/2009 11:06AM - in reply to OldSub4 Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
OS4 wrote:

"The times you would need to guage but if the goal is sub 2, then mile would be around 4:24-4:28 and 5k around 16minutes I am guessing for a typical HS runner (I am proably off)."


OS4 - You are right on. His times last year as a
junior were:

4:27 (1600)
15:50 (5k)
why
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/29/2009 11:38AM - in reply to HSC Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
why would he run the 800 then?? his other times seem much faster, especially the 5k
HSC
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/29/2009 1:53PM - in reply to why Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

why wrote:

why would he run the 800 then?? his other times seem much faster, especially the 5k



This may not make any sense, but I am trying to think of his future - after high school.
markeroon
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/29/2009 3:31PM - in reply to HSC Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

HSC wrote:
This may not make any sense, but I am trying to think of his future - after high school.


Makes perfect sense to me. It's gonna be tough to be quick over 5km if you can't break two minutes for 800m.
HSC
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/29/2009 8:41PM - in reply to OldSub4 Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
OS4 Your suggestions look very sound. Also close to
what I had planned.
Thanks for taking the time to help.
fUrCeOsNhN
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/29/2009 9:08PM - in reply to HSC Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Sounds similar to what Jim Spivey did in high school-maximizing 800/mile speed in high school.

http://www.tnrunning.com/articles/milner/catching_up_with_spivey.html
Voice of Ray-san
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 4:19AM - in reply to wellnow Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
So does that mean only 0.1% of the people actually understand you?

The question to which you responded was asking if finishing off 200m repeats with one or two 22 second runs, is appropriate for this time of year, because it might place to much demand on the anaerobic system.

Do you claim that it is never possible to over-stimulate the anaerobic system at any time of the year, no matter the runner, his event, and the training phase?

Completely and mutually exclusively contrary to the impossibility of anyone ever being "too anaerobic", it would seem to me that the possibility of over-stimulating the "anaerobic system", leading to over-training, always exists every week of the year.

Can you help me see what's wrong with my thinking? Or is my statement correct, and maybe I'm just using the wrong words?


wellnow wrote:

You can never be "too anaerobic" at any time of year. The anaerobic systems are used first in training and in racing. So when people talk about alactic sprints for example, that is actually very high intensity anearobic work.
Of course this is very different to 99.9% of people's understanding of the terminology. That's because the terminology is generally abused and misunderstood.
wellnow
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 9:04AM - in reply to Voice of Ray-san Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
There would certainly be problems arising if a runner did too many speed sessions at the expense of endurance, but why would 22 seconds for 200m be too fast for Seb Coe?

If there was sufficient time for him to convert that kind of speed endurance into 45-46 second pace for 400 then he migh get himself into 1.41 shape for the summer.
wellnow
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 9:07AM - in reply to pewterschmidt Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

pewterschmidt wrote:

I am sure that mitochondria are destroyed when pH gets low enough but I would like evidence that your pH drops that low during an anaerobic session. After all normal pH is 7.4 and death occurs around 6.8 so I am assuming that during an anaerobic session your pH MAY drop to 7.2.

Again Id like to see evidence.



Blood ph and muscle ph are very different. The blood must remain slightly alkaline at all times, but muscle ph can fall to 6.2-6.4
wellnow
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 9:12AM - in reply to Some Canadian Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Some Canadian wrote:

[quote]wellnow wrote:
Low ph doesn't destroy mitochondria, that is just another silly myth.


Well, there's only one thing to do to find out for sure: get some mitochondria in a controlled environment and then introduce them to low-pH conditions and see what happens.

Oh... wait... someone already did that.

Nevermind![/quote]



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I do it regularly, I run hard up hills.
Some Canadian
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 10:38AM - in reply to wellnow Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

wellnow wrote:

[quote]Some Canadian wrote:

[quote]wellnow wrote:
Low ph doesn't destroy mitochondria, that is just another silly myth.


Well, there's only one thing to do to find out for sure: get some mitochondria in a controlled environment and then introduce them to low-pH conditions and see what happens.

Oh... wait... someone already did that.

Nevermind![/quote]



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I do it regularly, I run hard up hills.[/quote]


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(slaps forehead in exasperation)
Voice of Ray-san
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 11:42AM - in reply to wellnow Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

wellnow wrote:
but why would 22 seconds for 200m be too fast for Seb Coe?


Because his target was 27 seconds?
wellnow
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 12:15PM - in reply to Voice of Ray-san Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I think you are missing the point, 200's is not too fast for a runner like Coe the first 200m of a 1.41 800 are very fast, in Kipketer's 1.41.1 he went through in about 23.5

Maybe you are too hung up on Lydiard dogma.
wellnow
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 12:20PM - in reply to Some Canadian Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Why are you slapping your head in exasperation? Running fast causes muscle cell damage, that does not mean that low ph is the major cause, that is not a proven hypothesis.

Explain why running downhill without low ph causes more damage than running uphill with low ph?

Also, why is heat production hardly ever mentioned in the literature concerning muscle fatigue?

Think logically, there are many silly fizzyology myths out there.
lucas
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 12:21PM - in reply to wellnow Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Ask Will Jurkowski....he knows a lot about talking the talk of going sub 1:50 but never actually doing it. In his mind he has already run 1:46 and made the olympic team.
wellnow
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/30/2009 12:34PM - in reply to Anthony Colotti Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Anthony Colotti wrote:

Explain how because you are absolutely wrong. The destruction of mitochondria is also not a myth.

I have no idea where you come up with this shit but if you read one page of any Soviet training manual or an exercise physiology book you would realize this.

An example maybe? Glycogenolytic is just the breakdown of glycogen to glucose during Glycolysis, not some separate energy system. Pretty basic.

Steve Scott did 1k's at 2:49 pace with 300m jog. A 3:47 mile guy. The hills were a high volume and not all out with a long recovery.



Anthony, it's very simple. The specificity of training has much more to do with neuro-muscular co-ordination than with aerobic/anaerobic capacities. These capacities don't change substantially during much of the athletes training once they have a decent level of basic fitness. What changes is the neural adaption, so you may be able to run 200's much faster after a few weeks of speed work, but thea adaption is mostly neural. If you have been doing hill work then you already have the enzymes to cope with higher H+ concentrations etc.

Glycolysis from blood glucose and glycogenolysis are NOT the same pathway. There are different H+ and ATP yields.

With glycogenolysis there is a yield of one extra ATP and one less H+

So that mean there is six times as much anaerobic ATP derived from glycogen v glucose and a much lower acidity.

Consider this in relation to how long we should wait after our last meal before we train hard or race, it is very significant.
atletabanana
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/31/2009 3:51PM - in reply to OldSub4 Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
OS4, I saw in Nick Symmonds' blog that he opens the outdoor season with a 1500m phase before going on to 800s. Looks like it was april/may. Did you do this under Gagliano too? I was wondering if he's just running off the strength phase or if there is actual specific sharpening to prepare for these 1500s.
mistake lake
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/31/2009 6:30PM - in reply to atletabanana Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
OS4 or anyone...

All of my middle distance and distance runners will be coming straight from basketball and will have just a 12 week season.

In the past, I have approached training in a couple of ways after their season is over-

one being working solely on endurance (long runs, easy runs, some mild LT work) and speed work of the 30-60m variety (3-6x 30-60m) for the first 4 weeks. The first few meets, they would run a variety of races from the 200-3200m, depending on the kid. A lot of success by the end of the year from this.

Last season, we started training all "systems" simutaneously and gradually progressed. It was hit or miss last season and we never ran as well as I thought we would have. Not nearly as well as the year before. Some kids didn't even PR. The weather was awful, however. We never had a "nice" meet and were only able to get on our gravel track for 2 workouts all year. So maybe our race results were skewed a little.

My question, though- what are some ideas on how to approach training with a group like this; coming straight from basketball?
U.N.O.
RE: Sub 1:50 800m Training 1/31/2009 11:16PM - in reply to mistake lake Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

mistake lake wrote:

Last season, we started training all "systems" simutaneously and gradually progressed. It was hit or miss last season and we never ran as well as I thought we would have. Not nearly as well as the year before. Some kids didn't even PR. The weather was awful, however. We never had a "nice" meet and were only able to get on our gravel track for 2 workouts all year. So maybe our race results were skewed a little.




If you mean by all systems that you included "anaerobic training" from the start, that was a mistake. First approach was better because you had more pure endurance work without inerrupting that with "anaerobic training".
If they have such a short season then they should continue this base regime (endurance and alactic top speed) through competitions, just include more rhythm (race pace) strides in. They do not need really hard sessions with races because of not so good base background. Only some progressive VO2max intervals before and in racing season depending of the race schedule.
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