Instead of a tempo our coach had us do this .Is he crazy.

cool story bro

It's still a tempo workout. Do some research. And trust your coach.

Sounds good to me.

Yeah pretty good. Similar physiologically to a tempo. Possible benefits include making the workout slightly easier if he thinks you guys are beat, and keeping you all in one spot so he can observe and make sure you don't run it too hard. Lots of youngsters don't know how to do controlled efforts--when I was 17 my teammate and I did "fartleks" all summer, until one day in August we ran with a good college athlete and he told us we had been doing an interval workout. That fall we ran great until the championship season, whereupon we promptly fell apart.

Good idea.Just under a tempo effort.

Is my coach crazy wrote:

So he said instead of a Tuesday tempo we will do 6x 1/2 mile reps at tempo effort with a 1:30 easy jog between .He said guys I want you to be keep it where you can talk.He said since my 5k goal is 16 flat I want them 2:47 to 2:43 you can run the last one in like 2:38.I want this to feel hard but not like a drop dead workout.It felt easy though the road was kinda messed up any way.We did it on a 1/2 mile loop.Then we did 4 fast 150s a 5k race effort.Is my coach a idiot or is there a purpose to this?

for once i will follow the LRC dogma of "shorter recovery!". 1 min tops. should be plenty if you are truly running tempo pace (which is HM pace imo).

also 3 miles of total tempo volume is not that much for a 5ker. 4-6 is better.

i would have done 4-6xmile w/1min recovery.

also, 150s at 5K effort are not "fast". what are those helping? mile-800 pace better.

So you did cruise intervals. Sounds good to me!

4/10 you had some bites.

Why have there been so many hs/college kids on here complaining about perfectly legitimate workouts lately? I remember a couple of weeks ago some kid called his coach an idiot for telling him not to look at his watch during a tempo run.

Cruise intervals are good, but that recovery is way too long. Cut the recovery in half and it's a good workout.

the real deal wrote:

Why have there been so many hs/college kids on here complaining about perfectly legitimate workouts lately? I remember a couple of weeks ago some kid called his coach an idiot for telling him not to look at his watch during a tempo run.

Because they are trolls.......clearly

Is my coach crazy wrote:

So he said instead of a Tuesday tempo we will do 6x 1/2 mile reps at tempo effort with a 1:30 easy jog between .He said guys I want you to be keep it where you can talk.He said since my 5k goal is 16 flat I want them 2:47 to 2:43 you can run the last one in like 2:38.I want this to feel hard but not like a drop dead workout.It felt easy though the road was kinda messed up any way.We did it on a 1/2 mile loop.Then we did 4 fast 150s a 5k race effort.Is my coach a idiot or is there a purpose to this?

Trust your damn coach and don't make assumptions.

Is my coach crazy wrote:

So he said instead of a Tuesday tempo we will do 6x 1/2 mile reps at tempo effort with a 1:30 easy jog between .He said guys I want you to be keep it where you can talk.He said since my 5k goal is 16 flat I want them 2:47 to 2:43 you can run the last one in like 2:38.I want this to feel hard but not like a drop dead workout.It felt easy though the road was kinda messed up any way.We did it on a 1/2 mile loop.Then we did 4 fast 150s a 5k race effort.Is my coach a idiot or is there a purpose to this?

Complete waste of time. If you gonna do a tempo run , do a tempo. Slow 800s are useless. If you running 800s you should be close to puking by the end.

You a Dumass.

bestcoacheveryesever wrote:

Is my coach crazy wrote:

So he said instead of a Tuesday tempo we will do 6x 1/2 mile reps at tempo effort with a 1:30 easy jog between .He said guys I want you to be keep it where you can talk.He said since my 5k goal is 16 flat I want them 2:47 to 2:43 you can run the last one in like 2:38.I want this to feel hard but not like a drop dead workout.It felt easy though the road was kinda messed up any way.We did it on a 1/2 mile loop.Then we did 4 fast 150s a 5k race effort.Is my coach a idiot or is there a purpose to this?

Complete waste of time. If you gonna do a tempo run , do a tempo. Slow 800s are useless. If you running 800s you should be close to puking by the end.

Cruze invertvals.

I used to be like you. Afraid of easy workouts. Three stress fractures, a herniated disc, and a disfigured mess that used to be a left hip socket later, I really wish I had taken some more days easy.

But hey, anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

There is nothing way about this.This workout is a good one yet not something crazy.It hits the spot.

I mean there is nothing easy about this workout.