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Poster: Sensei
Subject: RE: Do you believe the rest of the SI article about Rupp & Farah? 8 x 1200 at 4,551 Ft Altitude in 3:09/2min rest?
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workout monster? not really wrote:
I entirely believe this. This is closer to their 10k pace than their 5k pace.
Literally just yesterday I did 6x1200, cutting evenly down from my 10k pace to my 5k pace, with 1:30 rest. I'm pretty sure I could have made it 8, definitely with the longer rest. And I live at higher than 5000 feet.
Obviously Farah and Rupp are doing these quite a bit faster than me, but in terms of rest and effort relative to maximal I think this is a reasonable workout. Especially when you take into account that Farah has been training at altitude for at least a couple of months every season, for years.
I'm actually surprised this gets such a strong reaction here. I think people overestimate the effects of altitude generally, and on intervals in particular.
The first workout I agree they could do easely, but 15x25 seconds? That sounds a bit much.Hit the submit button below if you want us to review the post.
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