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Poster: Old Runner
Subject: RE: Need some help from the milers out there
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trance dance turn in shawowski wrote:


Good post MS3.

As a high school runner, I had the same issue as the OP's runner with similar times/PRs. For me, 400s and 200s were my bread and butter but ask me to run intervals of 800m+ and the wheels started to come off real quick. I always felt that if my mile was ~4:30, my 800m intervals should be in the 2:15 ballpark but during the workout, 2:30-2:40+ became the range. 1600m intervals @ 5minutes would have crushed me.

Moral of story, as MS3 mentions, long rep distances. Good luck.


Good. Thanks. His coach has him run the rare 800's that he does get to do in 2:21 which seem a bit slow to me. I know they are trying to base it from Vdot and all, but I think he should be training at a higher stress than he is at current. I dont want to see him burn out, but Im concerned that he wont get better (even if it is only 3seconds) without a more taxing workout schedule. The end of the season is the killer. fortunately he has a senior year to work with still and a good cross country season may be what he needs to set up for Track next year.

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