Interesting that people are acting like this isn't still an impressive workout. He did 36min of work at like 4:44 pace and then 4x300 at 42. How many of you could even race 12min at 4:40 pace? This is the stuff that makes you strong. Any decent high school kid can run a 42sec 300 to close a workout but you need insane strength to win NCAA XC and to run 13:03.
Interesting that people are acting like this isn't still an impressive workout. He did 36min of work at like 4:44 pace and then 4x300 at 42. How many of you could even race 12min at 4:40 pace? This is the stuff that makes you strong. Any decent high school kid can run a 42sec 300 to close a workout but you need insane strength to win NCAA XC and to run 13:03.
Blanks did 36 minutes at 61-62 minute half marathon pace with what look to me like float recoveries, rather than jog recoveries. Three minutes float after the first and second 12 minute thresholds make 42 minutes continuous, so it was a pretty solid workout even before the 4x300 at a bit faster than mile pace (56-57/400m) on just one minute rest. As he said, it's a workout he does a variant of on a regular basis.
Interesting that people are acting like this isn't still an impressive workout. He did 36min of work at like 4:44 pace and then 4x300 at 42. How many of you could even race 12min at 4:40 pace? This is the stuff that makes you strong. Any decent high school kid can run a 42sec 300 to close a workout but you need insane strength to win NCAA XC and to run 13:03.
I would have no problem running 12 mins at 30s off 5k pace and the. Do some 300s like 1s faster 1500m pace. I expect most runners feel the same.
Workouts aren’t meant to be impressive on their own. It is the 20+ weeks of doing this a couple times/week.
If she really ran 4 x300 in 44-45" with 1' off, then it is really a dumb workout for the level of fitness where she is, and not only in race week. Let alone the very idea of running a broken down 1200m at 800m pace. Running that threshold is spot-on though. I doubt very much those 300s where that hard.
Blanks did 36 minutes at 61-62 minute half marathon pace with what look to me like float recoveries, rather than jog recoveries. Three minutes float after the first and second 12 minute thresholds make 42 minutes continuous, so it was a pretty solid workout even before the 4x300 at a bit faster than mile pace (56-57/400m) on just one minute rest. As he said, it's a workout he does a variant of on a regular basis.
Yes. The threshold was tweaked to be easier with 6’ float rest. The 300s were tweaked to be harder with just 1’. 300s at mile pace with 1’ rest is doable but challenging if you do a lot of them. These were more like 1500 pace and with all that threshold in the legs.
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The "train but don't strain" thing about Nico....did he really look strained? I remember Smith saying, let's cut this workout off now and he only does such workouts every other month. And this threshold Blanks did...I like. Love the combo workouts hitting multiple energy systems. I didn't watch the video yet, but what about doing it at 10K pace vs. Half-marathon? Or some of it at 10K pace. I guess we don't know the exact goal of this 3K and what his long term race plans are.
It's amazing that they can recruit such good runners with that kind of ugly training grounds. What else do they have going for them? You'd think that with a $50-60 billion endowment they could fix the potholes and cracks in their campus roads.
Of course, no splits on the tempo outside of him saying what he ran at the end. Incredibly boring video - almost as bad as the 'church of the long run' videos
How has living with the perception everything should be catered to your wishes been?
I mean, the entire purpose of the video is to entertain and interest people. It's seeking attention on YouTube, not his training diary.
Pretty reasonable for a viewer to share whether he was entertained and interested.
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