Jakob Ingebrigtsen: Measures higher treshold than ever before

You should probably let someone else translate; someone who actually knows how to write correct english

djfdfd wrote:

You should probably let someone else translate; someone who actually knows how to write correct english

Guy is posting something interesting and your only comment is about his English.... butthurt much this morning?

Thanks for posting this OP. Gjert i think he mentioned that Jakob could run an half under one hour. All the episodes in those two series have now English subs on YouTube for those who are interested....

agreed, the OP's writing is perfectly clear.

I am more of a casual fan of the sport these days. When Jakob races it is the only time I really pay attention.

djfdfd wrote:

You should probably let someone else translate; someone who actually knows how to write correct english

Are you unable to take a moment and think before you comment? I've clearly just posted Google translates version of the text, fixing a few of the worst mistakes.

djfdfd wrote:

You should probably let someone else translate; someone who actually knows how to write correct english

Says the guy with a run-on sentence and no punctuation...fool.

Thanks for the post, OP.

Idiot patrol1 wrote:

djfdfd wrote:

You should probably let someone else translate; someone who actually knows how to write correct english

Says the guy with a run-on sentence and no punctuation...fool.

Thanks for the post, OP.

Thanks. If anyone wonders how the ingebrigtsens train, search my username in here

Agree, his (her?) comment kind of sucked, but to be fair, that's not a run-on sentence.

Great post, OP!

Explain to me the test, because I saw the episode and I thought that they slowly increased the speed over the course of an hour to find his threshold?That is different from from running a sub 60 half (not saying he can't do it the kid seems to be able to surprise us with anything) which requires speeds like 21kmph for a full hour. Anyhow if he was in the DL 5000m final in Brussels he would have run under 13 pretty or close to it.

Subway Surfers wrote:

Explain to me the test, because I saw the episode and I thought that they slowly increased the speed over the course of an hour to find his threshold?That is different from from running a sub 60 half (not saying he can't do it the kid seems to be able to surprise us with anything) which requires speeds like 21kmph for a full hour. Anyhow if he was in the DL 5000m final in Brussels he would have run under 13 pretty or close to it.

It doesn't last that long. They increase the speed and somewhat uphill (3-4% I think).

The point of the test is to figure out your treshold pace, at what pace your lactate-curve breaks. This pace is aprox the same pace as elite runners can hold for an hour (e.g half marathon pace). So, they are saying he theoretically can run sub 60 for a half marathon.

The test consists of two parts.

1. Lactate threshold testing, where the treadmill is set on an incline of 1,7 % (air resistance equivalent to ~2:55/km outside). Then they run intervals of perhaps 4 or 5 minutes (depends on what procedure one uses), where the only rest is to test lactate (which takes around 20-30 seconds for the runner). They continue this until the runner reaches lactate levels above ~4 mmol/l.

2. Vo2-max test. Here they set the incline to 4-5 % and the runner runs at progressive speeds until he reaches exhaustion or until the Vo2 scores levels out.

Thanks for the post.

How do the Ingebrigtsen's train their threshold? Is it stuff like 400m intervals a bit faster than threshold pace with a short recovery or longer intervals right on the threshold pace?

I guess that they also avoid intense workouts while trying to build their threshold in the off season.

interested reader wrote:

Thanks for the post.

How do the Ingebrigtsen's train their threshold? Is it stuff like 400m intervals a bit faster than threshold pace with a short recovery or longer intervals right on the threshold pace?

I guess that they also avoid intense workouts while trying to build their threshold in the off season.

Well, they train at treshold, meaning at lactate below 3.5 mmol. So they aren't really concerned with the treshold pace when they do treshold intervals, just to keep their training below 3.5, meaning its a treshold workout but not necessarily at "treshold pace" as you think of it.

I've written about their training here before, just search my name. They basically have 2 days a week (Tuesday and Thursdag) where they have long treshold intervals in the morning, and shorter treshold intervals in the evening).

Then, each Saturday they do 2x200m hills pretty hard, above treshold. They basically train like this from October until April.

Only 2 x 200m ?

And in English: "threshold"

Just as an indicator, what would their pace be for a set of 1k repeats?

OK thanks for the information.

It's threshold, not treshold. Surprised this being letsrun this wasn't the first comment.

Last year I know Jakob did 12x1000m intervals around 2:55/km. This was at sea level around a pond on gravel.

rewtard wrote:

Last year I know Jakob did 12x1000m intervals around 2:55/km. This was at sea level around a pond on gravel.

Was it threshold or other?

Marius Bakken ( 13:06 ) use to run 10 @ 4:45 pace at "treshold" I believe, and measured with a lactic meter.