Any ideas
Any ideas
your average time per rep in an 8-12 x 800m should give you a pretty decent idea of your 2 mile race pace
1:1 rest ratio I presume?
NYUXC wrote:
your average time per rep in an 8-12 x 800m should give you a pretty decent idea of your 2 mile race pace
Why don't you just spend the 9-12 minutes running a time trial in practice? I don't understand why people would rather do an hour-long workout that still leaves some ambiguity to your capability. Can you explain to us why you don't just do a time trial?
kdkdo wrote:
Why don't you just spend the 9-12 minutes running a time trial in practice? I don't understand why people would rather do an hour-long workout that still leaves some ambiguity to your capability. Can you explain to us why you don't just do a time trial?
Because during a competitive season it's not always a good idea to run an all-out effort time trial. You can also get more volume in by doing a workout and save your legs for another workout later in the week.
I'm a college runner, so I'm not going to just do a time trial whenever I feel like it. If I was training on my own and outside of school, then I would probably go ahead and just do a time trial.
8 times 800 with 90 seconds rest beginning at the pace you currently could maintain for 3200. Drop down a second each repeat and run the last two close to your mile pace.
Average it out and that will indicate the time you are ready to run for 3200 meters.
Or just quit worrying about needing workouts to indicate what time you can run and just race and the chips will fall into place.
The workouts should not be focused on "indicators".
Furthermore, I want to coach after I'm done running, so this thread was also for the sake of my own curiosity. I find it fascinating to be able to give a rough prediction of someone's fitness based on workouts they've done.
George Atlas wrote:
8 times 800 with 90 seconds rest beginning at the pace you currently could maintain for 3200. Drop down a second each repeat and run the last two close to your mile pace.
Average it out and that will indicate the time you are ready to run for 3200 meters.
Or just quit worrying about needing workouts to indicate what time you can run and just race and the chips will fall into place.
The workouts should not be focused on "indicators".
Obviously no workout should strictly be focused on an indicator, but it can serve that purpose as well as giving you the fitness you're looking for.
I can't just "quit worrying" about it and race a 3200 since I'm a college runner. We have a schedule and we only run one 3200 in the whole track season as a practice race, so really I just wanted to know some workouts out of curiosity and so that I might utilize some after I graduate.
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