I have heard stories of some "legendary" workouts that really turn heads and define an athlete. Pre and Salazar doing 30/30's or 30/40s for multiple miles, Webb running insane splits on the Michigan, Komen and Kennedy starting off a ladder with sub 4 land going down, Lindgren running insane long tempos.
What are some unbelievable or famous workouts you have seen or heard of from famous college programs or professionals?
Floore wrote:
I have heard stories of some "legendary" workouts that really turn heads and define an athlete. Pre and Salazar doing 30/30's or 30/40s for multiple miles, Webb running insane splits on the Michigan, Komen and Kennedy starting off a ladder with sub 4 land going down, Lindgren running insane long tempos.
What are some unbelievable or famous workouts you have seen or heard of from famous college programs or professionals?
Rupp's 5xmile at BU a few years ago was pretty crazy. Last rep was 4:01 or something like that. AFTER his 13:02 5k.
1) Henry Rono soloing a 12.55 on a whim in practice.
2) abdi bile 3x400 in 48
3) joe falcon indoor 16/12/8/6...etc on the old flat track. Started at 4.06, and john just let him go from there.
4) graham hood- 2.51 indoor 1200 on old flat track
5) Jim Ryun 20x4 on crappy dirt track as a hs'er (summer after graduating) in 60 with 60 rest
Danny Harris:
2x600 in 1:14,16 (saw it myself).
The famous workout pre was rumored to have done before Munich was 3x1600 in 4:08
Some old Arkansas fables say that Joe Falcon did a 1:45.9 800TT in training. Also 2x1600 with 10 min recovery in 3:59. And a ladder during indoors on the flat track 1600 in 4:03, 1200m 3:02, 800 2:00, 600m 1:28 500m 71, 400m 56, 300 43, 200, 27
Seneca is also runored to have done 1200, 800, 400 in 2:51, 1:50, 51.
Another i can think of from reading running with the buffalos when Goucher while still in college ran an absurd 22 miles over hills and at altitude at like 5:20 pace or something
Webb talked on Flotrack about doing 9x800 with the first 8 of em cut down to like 1:58-2:00 and then the last one in 1:48. What a freak
Webb's Michigan workout.
One of the most impressive I've ever heard of was Shaheen doing 2x1600 with 6:00 rest in 3:57, 3:58 on Eldoret University's dirt track at 7000+ ft of elevation.
The most legendary has to be Daniel Komen's 1600, 1200, 800, 400. 3-4 minutes rest. I don't remember the exact times although I know the 1600 was a 3:54.
"Joe Falcon did a 1:45.9 800TT in training. Also 2x1600 with 10 min recovery in 3:59."
I saw the 2 x 1600 workout with my own two eyes. It was on the SMSU track here in Springfield, MO.
Seb Coe with his 6 x 800 m while his dad drove the car beside him.
Herb Elliott sprinting up sand dunes.
Emil Zatopek running 40 or 80 x 400 m in snow with army boots on.
Rupp doing 24 laps, six full miles, of 30/40. From all the great runners to come through Oregon, he broke the record of 18 laps held by Pre/Salazar.
bigtool05 wrote:
One of the most impressive I've ever heard of was Shaheen doing 2x1600 with 6:00 rest in 3:57, 3:58 on Eldoret University's dirt track at 7000+ ft of elevation.
The most legendary has to be Daniel Komen's 1600, 1200, 800, 400. 3-4 minutes rest. I don't remember the exact times although I know the 1600 was a 3:54.
Quoted as 3:54, 2:53, 1:54, 55.
Read about this as a teenager and that was it, realised I'd never be winning international races.
Roger Bannister. 10 x 440 in 59.
60 x 400
There are references in boulder of Ritz while in college running a 20 miler faster than anyone to come through the program.... Like 5:10 pace on the back end
Other Ritzenhein legends:
24 Miles @ 5:10 pace
9x1600 with 400 jog in 4:20
10 Mile tempo in 45:03 (4:30 pace)
Salazar and Hudson give credibility to these workouts.
Bill Rodgers fable from '75:
10x2mile in 9:25
spectator. wrote:
Danny Harris:
2x600 in 1:14,16 (saw it myself).
I always wished I could have seen what Harris or other top 400m Hurdlers could run for 800. That workout suggests at least 1:44 capability
Hog wrote:
The famous workout pre was rumored to have done before Munich was 3x1600 in 4:08
Any 13:30 5k runner could do that world without trouble.
Seasoned pro wrote:
Hog wrote:The famous workout pre was rumored to have done before Munich was 3x1600 in 4:08
Any 13:30 5k runner could do that world without trouble.
FVCKINg spell check. I hate "smart"phones.
Mo has done 20 x 400 @ 57 @ altitude before. And either he or Galen did 20 x 200 @ 27 before but that's not as impressive.