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One of the hardest i can remember was 4x2k 4x1k with 2 minute rest. Didn't hit goal pace for any of them after the first two and only finished 2 of the 1ks. Also one of the most difficult mental workouts i can remember. Felt totally burned out until I nailed a tempo run two days later. Funny how you forget so easily.
warm up: 3 sets of 6 x marathon at 2mile race pace
workout: 4 mile jog at 8:00 pace with breaks
cool down: 1000 (2:11.96), 800 (1:41.01), 600 (1:12.81), 400 (43.18) 200 (19.19)
1 x beer 10,000m
2 x 600m at 800m pace in highschool with 1 lap jog. I think I was in 1:59 shape at the time....went 1:27,1:35. The original workout was supposed to be 2x600 with 8min rest but the coach didn't show up and the assistant coach thought it was 1 lap jog and just yelled at me to start after my first lap of rest. Totally not ready for that. In retrospect I should have argued with her more about it. Oh well.
Another tough one in my first year of university was 5 x 600m at 1500m race pace with a 2min jog. I think I had run 3:57 or 3:58 prior to that workout. I started off at 1:35 to 1:36 for my first three, ran a 1:37 on the fourth totally dead. Started the fifth, made it to 200m in 35 while tying up and then dropped out.
Well im sure it nots so bad when your mile pace is 5:30, but in my case when it's 4:30, its a tad difficult
I'm only in High School, so I'm sure I haven't run a workout nearly as difficult at some of the college and elite runners on here. I'm also not ridiculously fast and I especially wasn't in the past few years.
Two of the hardest workouts I recall doing are:
1. 24x200 @ 32 seconds per 200, with 30 seconds rest. 2 minutes rest after 12. We did it twice through. As a 5 minute miler at the time, this was one hell of a workout for me. I know I didn't finish on pace.
2. When it snowed enough that we couldn't use the track last Indoor Season, we had practice inside the school. We did 400, 800, 1200, 1600, 1600, 1200, 800, 400. It was rough running through the halls because a) Sharp turns at the corners b) Avoiding students and staff c) Doorways/Door Frames (those annoying poles in the middle) d) The Janitors were cleaning the floors...very slick. At the time I also had bad knees, this made for a challenging and painful workout. I believe the pace was 400: 68s 800: 2:36s 1200: 3:49s and 1600: 5:25s or something to that effect.
I know to many those workouts are easy, but given the condition I was in and running in, they were difficult at the time. Although, they were fun.
3x1/300 40 standing 20 a 2
Hard-paced 27km hilly trail run in humid 96F weather with no water availability until a gas station with 3km to go. Thought I'd make it there without much problems. Staggered in and bought two large Gatorade bottles, drank them ASAP and then promptly vomited it all back up. Had to call a cab; I was staggering around. Got home and spent 24 hours on the couch with a splitting headache. Usually heat doesn't affect me that badly. This day, it did. I knew I was in trouble when I stopped sweating with 5-6k to go the gas station.
.2mi warmup, 26x1mi at goal Marathon Pace, run consecutively.
My toughest in college (not impossible) was The Michigan, except our coach made the tempo runs 1.5 miles instead of 1 mile.
For those who don't know what The Michigan is:
1 Mile (Hard, not quite all out-maybe 20 seconds off your mile PR)
1.5 Mile Tempo Pace
1200 (Faster than the pace you were at for the mile)
1.5 Mile Tempo
800 (Mile Pace/faster than the pace for the 1200)
1.5 Mile Tempo
400 (all out)
The only impossible workout I attempted was to try to run marathon pace at Boston this year