You kids and sprinters are as tough as nails. 5x60m workout killed me.

When I did 60m full-out repeats for the first time, I'd do it the afternoon after a morning track workout. I'd ride my bike a mile to my favorite dash spot and do a few strides (150m total) and get it going from there, walking back to my start spot as recovery. My tip is to either 1.) Dedicate the day like you would a hard workout, do your normal run warm-up )I do 2miles, but instead of 3 x 10sec. strides I finish the last 200m fast, starting from mile pace to full out by the last 20-30m)., finish the workout, then do your cooldown miles or 2.) Do the session later in the day after a quality session, as to rest the muscles before going at it again.

Oh and yeah the first time you do the workout you'll most definitely get sore. Soreness means the body wasn't adequately prepared for the session or cooldown'd properly. If it's your first time doing a certainly physical activity, then there's not way you could possibly be "adequately prepared", as the body has never done that task before.

Speculator Sam wrote:

If it's your first time doing a certainly physical activity, then there's not way you could possibly be "adequately prepared", as the body has never done that task before.

That's what she said.

Some sprinters have the same attitude towards distance dudes

Remember when David Oliver (110m hurdle world champion) ran a 27 minute 5k?

https://twitter.com/doliversub13/status/660092590201683968

lmao

34 year old sub 3:30 thon wrote:

Yesterday was surfing the message boards when I came across a sprinting thread that talked about 5x60m making you sore. I laughed and went out for my 7 miler. During the run I came across a track and decided wth, let's do that workout. It was so easy, I was landing 8-9 seconds etc... I finished my run, got back home, and kept thinking about how idiotic anybody must be to do that stuff. To my surprise I was as sore as the devils 8==D today. I'm a sub 3:30 marathoner and couldn't run 2 miles without walking back home. Anybody who does these types of workouts is crazy.

lmaoooo this is the funniest thing ever

Deliveries in the Rear wrote:

Speculator Sam wrote:

If it's your first time doing a certainly physical activity, then there's not way you could possibly be "adequately prepared", as the body has never done that task before.

That's what she said.

pics?

Once the sprinters on our masters team were saying I couldn't do their workout and not be in pain. So I did 6x200 as fast as I could. Granted it wasn't as fast as they ran, but it was the fastest I could put out so they said that counted. My lungs were fine but legs were rubbery at the end.

The next day I couldn't sit down on the toilet without extreme pain.

It's hard training. It's just a different type of hard.

Repeated bout effect will make em easier. They usually make me feel energized the rest of the day.

If you introduce them slowly to your training it’s not that bad. If you haven’t been doing anything, start by doing strides a few times a week (accelerate to ~800m effort). Gradual introduce 6-8s hill sprints: do two sessions a week, start with two reps (after a thorough warm up), add an additional rep each session until you’re doing 10-12, then replace one of the hill sprint sessions with the track session you described. By mid/late season, evolve the speed workout into a speed endurance workout (e.g. 15 x 100m @ ~400m pace) and only do an occasional hill sprint/speed workout for maintenance.

I usually do this kind of speed session the day before an aerobic workout. Later in a season, I like to start each set of race pace reps with a couple hill sprints.