Texas FloTrack Workout: 4-6 x 800/200 - Opinions?

Ehhh. Never liked watching college ladies do workouts that I could do. Especially 37 seconds for 200. Looks slow.

Rather see

- Decent to fast guys

- fast women (like KT)

epicTCK, I'm genuinely interested why you felt the need to give your two cents. Do you get an ego boost out of letting people know that you could keep up with them in a workout? If so, let me say 'congrats' on being able to hang with them on a mid season workout! :-) Perhaps you don't have much experience or insight into collegiate running, but the frequent competition schedule means that most teams aren't coming close to red-lining during workouts.

sssense wrote:

epicTCK, I'm genuinely interested why you felt the need to give your two cents. Do you get an ego boost out of letting people know that you could keep up with them in a workout? If so, let me say 'congrats' on being able to hang with them on a mid season workout! :-) Perhaps you don't have much experience or insight into collegiate running, but the frequent competition schedule means that most teams aren't coming close to red-lining during workouts.

He was giving his two cents cause thats the point of the thread.

Op, this workout looks pretty fun and the Texas ladies are looking quick but so where the Texas men during there workout wensday.

Short horned wrote:

2:43 - 39

2:40 - 37

2:37 - 35

2:36 - 33

2:32 - 32

2:27 - 31

5:15/mi avg pace on the 800s with a range from 5:28/mi down to 4:55/mi.

4:40/mi avg pace on the 200s with a range from 5:15/mi down to 4:15/mi.

3 miles at 5:15 plus 3/4 mile at 4:40.

Looks about right for a 9:50 3000 meter runner. What do you all think about this workout?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUhRbjVB2KA

this looks like the oregon system...

Short horned wrote:

2:43 - 39

2:40 - 37

2:37 - 35

2:36 - 33

2:32 - 32

2:27 - 31

5:15/mi avg pace on the 800s with a range from 5:28/mi down to 4:55/mi.

4:40/mi avg pace on the 200s with a range from 5:15/mi down to 4:15/mi.

3 miles at 5:15 plus 3/4 mile at 4:40.

Looks about right for a 9:50 3000 meter runner. What do you all think about this workout?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUhRbjVB2KA

Looks like an easy day for Great Oak.

sssense wrote:

but the frequent competition schedule means that most teams aren't coming close to red-lining during workouts.

Frequent competition schedule???

Short horned wrote:

5:15/mi avg pace on the 800s with a range from 5:28/mi down to 4:55/mi.

4:40/mi avg pace on the 200s with a range from 5:15/mi down to 4:15/mi.

You know what!??! I've had enough! I can't stand when people translate splits from interval workouts into paces/mile.

It just doesn't make any sense to me. The splits of the intervals tell the story, there's no need to change it to min/mile. To me is shows a fundamental gap in your knowledge of running.

Bra-ket wrote:

Short horned wrote:

5:15/mi avg pace on the 800s with a range from 5:28/mi down to 4:55/mi.

4:40/mi avg pace on the 200s with a range from 5:15/mi down to 4:15/mi.

You know what!??! I've had enough! I can't stand when people translate splits from interval workouts into paces/mile.

It just doesn't make any sense to me. The splits of the intervals tell the story, there's no need to change it to min/mile. To me is shows a fundamental gap in your knowledge of running.

Yeh this thread is pretty dookey all around

Bra-ket wrote:

Short horned wrote:

5:15/mi avg pace on the 800s with a range from 5:28/mi down to 4:55/mi.

4:40/mi avg pace on the 200s with a range from 5:15/mi down to 4:15/mi.

You know what!??! I've had enough! I can't stand when people translate splits from interval workouts into paces/mile.

It just doesn't make any sense to me. The splits of the intervals tell the story, there's no need to change it to min/mile. To me is shows a fundamental gap in your knowledge of running.

Did you miss the part where I put all the splits down for you? Think about what you're saying, "It just doesn't make any sense to me....it (sp) shows a fundamental gap in your knowledge of running." So the person it doesn't make any sense to claims someone else has a gap in their knowledge. Go back to blowing yourself.

Short horned wrote:

Bra-ket wrote:

You know what!??! I've had enough! I can't stand when people translate splits from interval workouts into paces/mile.

It just doesn't make any sense to me. The splits of the intervals tell the story, there's no need to change it to min/mile. To me is shows a fundamental gap in your knowledge of running.

Did you miss the part where I put all the splits down for you? Think about what you're saying, "It just doesn't make any sense to me....it (sp) shows a fundamental gap in your knowledge of running." So the person it doesn't make any sense to claims someone else has a gap in their knowledge. Go back to blowing yourself.

Nah, i'm with braket on this one. Converting it to min/mile, especially for this workout, seems pretty pointless.

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Short horned wrote:

Did you miss the part where I put all the splits down for you? Think about what you're saying, "It just doesn't make any sense to me....it (sp) shows a fundamental gap in your knowledge of running." So the person it doesn't make any sense to claims someone else has a gap in their knowledge. Go back to blowing yourself.

Nah, i'm with braket on this one. Converting it to min/mile, especially for this workout, seems pretty pointless.

I agree, converting it to min/mile is dumb. When I run I'm always thinking of my splits for the overall distance. The pace in minutes per mile means nothing to me unless I'm racing the mile or doing mile repeats. If you told me to run 4:30 pace for 800s I would be totally lost. Since I don't agree, the OP clearly has no knowledge of running.

Why does the title of the thread say "4 - 6" when they did 6? Shouldnt it just say 6?

6 does fall into the 4-6 range.

Theoniongoat wrote:

Why does the title of the thread say "4 - 6" when they did 6? Shouldnt it just say 6?

Flotrack labeled it as 4 x 800/200 but two of them did 6, Collins being one of them.

This thread sucks.

Anyone want to look up these girls PRs? Team looks small. My initial reaction was this seems slow overall. Some only did 4 sets? 200s were slow.