When should the hardest workout of the season be in relation to the peak race?
When should the hardest workout of the season be in relation to the peak race?
There are a lot of different types of very hard workouts that are done at different times of the year.
So there is no one hardest workout of the season.
Early in the season you will be doing volume workouts
Later - speed workouts
They can both be equally hard.
Your last real hard workout would be about a week and a half before your peak race, often.
But a month before that you would do workouts that would be more fatiguing while not at the same quality.
Example for a miler
2 months before peak: 5 X 1000 hitting your best times of the year
1 month before peak: 12 X 400 hitting your best times of the year
A week and a half out: 8 X 400 at better than race pace
I don't which of those I would call the hardest workout
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There are a lot of different types of very hard workouts that are done at different times of the year.
So there is no one hardest workout of the season.
Early in the season you will be doing volume workouts
Later - speed workouts
They can both be equally hard.
Your last real hard workout would be about a week and a half before your peak race, often.
But a month before that you would do workouts that would be more fatiguing while not at the same quality.
Example for a miler
2 months before peak: 5 X 1000 hitting your best times of the year
1 month before peak: 12 X 400 hitting your best times of the year
A week and a half out: 8 X 400 at better than race pace
I don't which of those I would call the hardest workout
This dude is stuck in 1996.
The best runners start with speed and extend it to longer intervals near the racing season.
No mate he is right you are wrong
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