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jonesy. wrote:

eddy, great job breaking 2 in the 800! That was just a mental barrier for you. Has your coach had you do much of 600-mile in workouts this year?

boingo, those quarters were incredible. I have to ask, though, whether your training is overly skewed toward 800m races, as I don't recall seeing either tempo workouts or 800m-2k workouts from you this year. You ran a 5:12 mile prior to the quarters and maybe that was just a warmup, or maybe you're just sharpening with all the speed, but it seems like it doesn't fit there--that it should be sub-4:50. But if I think that you could be that much better with the longer speed and tempos, I agree with Ron that you are going to break four and I think that means at NYC Challenge this weekend. Good luck! Ron, you're showing excellent progress. I recommended that you join KC Smoke last summer and you can see how much it helps to run hard workouts with people. This is something that I'm missing right now.

I'm finally starting to cut some mileage. Last week was down to 86 only because I ran only 1 mile the day before the 4:42.33 mile race, but this week I'm planning to cut down to about 80 or so and then maybe to 70 the next week. So far, I've run 14.4, 11.5 and 11 this week. Today I did 3x200 (100j) w/u-37,37,36; 5x800 (200j)-2:25,2:30,2:33,2:32,2:30; 3x300 (100j)-53,51,50.
I struggled with the 200 rest on the 800's but am encouraged by the 2:25 start and I think that I could have maintained close to that on the 400 rest I was supposed to do. I'm still not sure that at my age I can re-acquire the speed necessary to bring my mile time down significantly but the aerobic is there to drop all my times at 3k and up.

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