What do you think of this training week?

You have 4 workout days there, could over due it potentially. A long run, tempo, 200s and mile repeats are quite much! Especially with some of the rest for the 20 200s.. I would suggest getting rid of one workout, maybe adding it into a double workout day. Like say make your mile repeats your tempo pace and cut the 200s in half and add in 400s at 5k pace

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You have 4 workout days there, could over due it potentially. A long run, tempo, 200s and mile repeats are quite much! Especially with some of the rest for the 20 200s.. I would suggest getting rid of one workout, maybe adding it into a double workout day. Like say make your mile repeats your tempo pace and cut the 200s in half and add in 400s at 5k pace

But hard intervals are good for you

No 400m x 20 with walking breaks til you reach 200 bpm?

Peninsula wrote:

No 400m x 20 with walking breaks til you reach 200 bpm?

Heart rate rest is not very productive

Bump

So 4 of the 5 days that you run in the week are hard days? It seems like you would have a better time running 6 or 7 days a week but have 2 or 3 hard days. That way you could run more mileage and it would kind of even out. Overall it just seems like you are doing too much hard workouts for the amount of mileage you are running.

Get those miles in wrote:

So 4 of the 5 days that you run in the week are hard days? It seems like you would have a better time running 6 or 7 days a week but have 2 or 3 hard days. That way you could run more mileage and it would kind of even out. Overall it just seems like you are doing too much hard workouts for the amount of mileage you are running.

I don't think that you should be going out and running 6 miles when you could be on the track getting used to running your race pace WITH A TIMER.

Bump!

Why even bother asking what others think if you shoot down what they say? You clearly have no idea about training methodology... The previous replies are right on - decrease the intensity. Or don't and get hurt or whatever. I don't really care

You're an idiot, or a troll. Or both.

why wrote:

Why even bother asking what others think if you shoot down what they say? You clearly have no idea about training methodology... The previous replies are right on - decrease the intensity. Or don't and get hurt or whatever. I don't really care

I just want to hear what others have to say... hopefully something smart but so far so bad.

Cato, a Roman statesman, said roughly, "Beware to casually disregard the methods of others". He is saying that you should always start something with an open mind. Clearly you are not following this advice.

Why don't you look around on this forum and see what kinds of work people are doing? Take a look at what the elites do, for crying out loud! Then you'll find out that there are other ways of doing things than just your way.

Like one guy said, why did you ask if you aren't going to listen. You probably wanted praise for doing a hard week of training and met unexpected criticism. Don't worry, criticism is good! It's how you get better!

Save for the rest periods of the 200m repeats, it seems like something that was inspired by Seb Coe's training books.

Mind you, Coe was doing as much as 80 mpw and weightlifting in season to prepare for such intensity.

I have also seen high density of hard workouts by other coaches. However, they usually have an easy week before and an easy week after to allow for the adaptation of stress.

A plan of one week of training is meaningless without the context of what came before and what comes after.