Pretentious Training

Believe it or not, sometimes people like doing things other than 400s, 800s, 1200s, 1600s. Sometimes the loop works out to those distances.

There is a lot of benefit in doing floating rest for certain workouts.

Some people use different terms. Assertions probably means a pickup.

Sorry everybody doesn't do 10 x 400 with 2:30 standing rest.

Sounds mostly like you're upset you didn't get into ZAP.

STFU and grow up.

The Gentleman wrote:

Examples of pretentious training:

-- Intervals that are multiples of 500 meters: 1000m, 1500m, 2000m, 3000m, etc

An interval is the time between repeats. If you do 10 X 400 with 90 seconds rest, the interval is the 90 seconds between 400s. So I'm pretty sure that no one is doing intervals in multiples of 500m. Why the heck would you run 500 or 1,000 meters while resting between repeats?

Assuming that you meant "repeats that are multiples of 500 meters," 1,000m repeats are a staple of just about every 1500m/5000m training program in existence. Not sure what the problem with such a workout is.

Dropping your 400s by 3 sec each after the pole vault chicks show up.

I expected this to be a lame post, but I agree OP. That's hilarious.

might include any non-running activity included in one's training log: 20 min bike ride along the beach, pick-up soccer

spikes when you don't need them

Bragging about naps when 90% of everyone else is working real jobs, talking about Normatec boots and wine, taking pictures of your gluten free, organic, local, free range, soy free, dairy free, made from scratch food.

Fair enough. Repeats.

I have to be the most pretentious runner in the world then.

Monday I did short hill sprints.

Tomorrow I am planning on doing 1k repeats.

All I have to do is throw in floating recovery to tomorrows workout and borrow a heart rate monitor for my long run this weekend and I am this guys worst nightmare.

Seriously though, you included Vibrams right next to hill sprints as fads

I can't stand these narcissists who barely break a sweat, then come on here to brag about their "training session". For example, there's a recent thread where the OP brags about doing "A 1600m jog, a few 50m strides, a 100m to 800m effort, a 1600m jog." Then adds, "I seriously have no interest in running longer than this." What a tool!

Does the OP think that the word pretentious means practical and useful?

Obviously not.

Your post is pretty pretentious if you ask me. I am convinced you jog 5ks whilst carrying a fuel belt, 100% packed, locked and loaded.

I measure all my intervals in furlongs. Does that count?

The OP with the 1600m jog training session is a 53 year old guy who ran 17:1X for 5k at 51 years old. Now he is focusing on 400 and 800 m races. Certainly, the 400/800 guys on my HS team didn't do any more. One of them ran 1:58.2.

Tinfoil Hat wrote:

I measure all my intervals in furlongs. Does that count?

Neigh.

I like 1,000s wrote:An interval is the time between repeats.

A better example of pretension is the guy that has to point this out when he fully understands what the writer's intention was.

justsomeoldcoach wrote:

Your post is pretty pretentious if you ask me. I am convinced you jog 5ks whilst carrying a fuel belt, 100% packed, locked and loaded.

Yo what's your beef bro !!

All of a sudden hill sprints are a "fad," started by Brad Hudson. Get some perspective.