Not going to give my name, but 8th grade year I went from 5:24 1600m and 2:24 800m off 25 mpw to 1:54 in practice off 50 mpw. I decided to run an 800m time trial last week before my first XC practice after doing a 8x400m workout in all low 60's with the last 200 in 26.
I ran 2:02 in the 800m off 7 miles a week of training. All workouts were speed based because I was part of a sprinting track club.
RUNFASTERPLZ wrote:
I ran 2:02 in the 800m off 7 miles a week of training. All workouts were speed based because I was part of a sprinting track club.
2:02 is good but you probably ran like a 52 or 53 400m.
Yeah I was able to run the first lap in 52 seconds but had no endurance because I never did much training towards that. All we did in training was speed and strength. I trained with a speed based track club because I knew the owner of the club and didn't have to pay anything. Where if I went to a different club I would have had to pay money. But it worked out fine because I developed insane speed.
1:54 speed is deadly. If you can be in position with a half mile to go, you'll be UNBEATABLE. I think you could be state champion.
thechadmeal wrote:
Not going to give my name, but 8th grade year I went from 5:24 1600m and 2:24 800m off 25 mpw to 1:54 in practice off 50 mpw. I decided to run an 800m time trial last week before my first XC practice after doing a 8x400m workout in all low 60's with the last 200 in 26.
How is this thread helping anyone?
You are the best ever. You should go pro now.
thechadmeal wrote:
Not going to give my name, but 8th grade year I went from 5:24 1600m and 2:24 800m off 25 mpw to 1:54 in practice off 50 mpw. I decided to run an 800m time trial last week before my first XC practice after doing a 8x400m workout in all low 60's with the last 200 in 26.
Pathetic
So wrote:
You are the best ever. You should go pro now.
thechadmeal wrote:Not going to give my name, but 8th grade year I went from 5:24 1600m and 2:24 800m off 25 mpw to 1:54 in practice off 50 mpw. I decided to run an 800m time trial last week before my first XC practice after doing a 8x400m workout in all low 60's with the last 200 in 26.
The best ever? I am definitely not that good, but thanks all for the replies. I usually don't get that kind of stuff on this website.
I really don't know how fast to run but I don't want to do that thing all HS runners do where they start out their first mile (and first quarter mile, especially) very very fast. If I come through in 5:30, I will probably cross the time mat or whatever they have going only 5:50 mile pace because, c'mon, everybody goes out too fast.
thechadmeal wrote:
Not going to give my name, but 8th grade year I went from 5:24 1600m and 2:24 800m off 25 mpw to 1:54 in practice off 50 mpw. I decided to run an 800m time trial last week before my first XC practice after doing a 8x400m workout in all low 60's with the last 200 in 26.
Just to clarify the 1:54 was on a separate day I did not do these back to back haha
thechadmeal wrote:
So wrote:You are the best ever. You should go pro now.
The best ever? I am definitely not that good, but thanks all for the replies. I usually don't get that kind of stuff on this website.
I really don't know how fast to run but I don't want to do that thing all HS runners do where they start out their first mile (and first quarter mile, especially) very very fast. If I come through in 5:30, I will probably cross the time mat or whatever they have going only 5:50 mile pace because, c'mon, everybody goes out too fast.
You know what sarcasm is? See above.
How about humility? You should learn.
RUNFASTERPLZ wrote:
I ran 2:02 in the 800m off 7 miles a week of training. All workouts were speed based because I was part of a sprinting track club.
I ran 1:51 off less than 15 miles a week including workouts
thechadmeal wrote:
Not going to give my name, but 8th grade year I went from 5:24 1600m and 2:24 800m off 25 mpw to 1:54 in practice off 50 mpw. I decided to run an 800m time trial last week before my first XC practice after doing a 8x400m workout in all low 60's with the last 200 in 26.
What kind of training did you to do improve so much, and how much recovery between the 400m?
Good improvements wrote:
thechadmeal wrote:Not going to give my name, but 8th grade year I went from 5:24 1600m and 2:24 800m off 25 mpw to 1:54 in practice off 50 mpw. I decided to run an 800m time trial last week before my first XC practice after doing a 8x400m workout in all low 60's with the last 200 in 26.
What kind of training did you to do improve so much, and how much recovery between the 400m?
The rest between was about 1:30. I worked up from about 25-30 mpw to 50-55 slowly with 6 mile easy runs. Most of my paces were really easy and I kept my HR down. As soon as XC began I started doing about 20 mile weeks with 2-3 workouts a week with no long run as we usually have meets. Workouts during base phase were things like 6-8x800 @5k pace, 3 min hard + 2 min easy, and 3 mile tempo runs.