20x200m with 200m jog recovery. I noticed another school did this a week ago. Did you ever do something like this? What are the benefits of this one? It seems like there are better ways to spend a day.
20x200m with 200m jog recovery. I noticed another school did this a week ago. Did you ever do something like this? What are the benefits of this one? It seems like there are better ways to spend a day.
It's hard to comment on stuff like this without context, but there's nothing unusual about the workout. You don't say how fast the 200s are run, nor do you say how slow the recovery jogs are. A lot of great runners (and a lot of great coaches) are fans of doing "in and out" workouts where the runner alternates 200s at 3000m-5000m race pace with the "recovery" 200 at just 10-15 seconds slower. Usually, these workouts go for 3-6 miles. The workout you mention, which totals 5 miles, sounds about right.
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20x200m with 200m jog recovery. I noticed another school did this a week ago. Did you ever do something like this? What are the benefits of this one? It seems like there are better ways to spend a day.
Okay. I guess we never did "in and out" workouts.
It's a 1500m workout (assuming you're running the 200s at 1500m pace). Coe did it. We would start in the fall, reducing rest and/or increasing the pace right through to track season. It ends up being a kind of fartlek.
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