From what we saw in that other thread, Brenda Martinez's "base training" months ago included such workouts as 4 miles in 20:22. Surely she could do that same workout in 20:00 now. And if she can run 4 miles at a 5:00 as a workout, how could she not run 3.1 miles at 4:50 in a race? She's got to be in sub-15 shape.
jamin wrote:
From what we saw in that other thread, Brenda Martinez's "base training" months ago included such workouts as 4 miles in 20:22. Surely she could do that same workout in 20:00 now. And if she can run 4 miles at a 5:00 as a workout, how could she not run 3.1 miles at 4:50 in a race? She's got to be in sub-15 shape.
Whoops. I meant to post that in another thread.
Her support of SFH makes her hotness double.
She has faster tempos and speed than I did when in sub-15 shape
Malerunner wrote:
She has faster tempos and speed than I did when in sub-15 shape
And yet she ran 16:09.
v6 wrote:
And yet she ran 16:09.
Her training log has to be fraudulent.
jamin wrote:
v6 wrote:And yet she ran 16:09.
Her training log has to be fraudulent.
No doubt. She's running 5 mile workouts at 5:10 pace and somehow can't break 16 for 5000m. I don't know why she would even post that stuff on twitter, it's a total joke. She didn't even run near fast enough to claim it was a workout.
fred wrote:
never heard of it wrote:What's an anaerobic tempo?
5 @ 5:07, 4 @ 5:05
I struggle to buy this. I thought I remembered seeing a video of her doing 1km reps on 2-3 mins rest in about 3 or marginally under. How can she run 5 mile tempos at almost that speed?
Under 3:00 for 1k is not almost the same as 5:05-5:07. The 1k repeats are around 4:49 pace or faster.
Black Wolf wrote:
More miles should keep her tummy flat
you're an a*sshole
the trick to Vigil's training always seems to have been to be talented enough to do it. i bought his book when i was still competing, and i could never handle his training schedules for times i was already able to run.
i wish someone could explain this. her threshold/tempo workouts look like the stuff of a 30:30/14:40 athlete would do.
it might not be impossible, but looks improbable that's her actual training. if it is, why isn't she faster
Get a Clue McFly wrote:
vigilante wrote:https://twitter.com/bmartrungod help me if this is her base training. What do u guys think?
She's coached by Joe Vigil so you can bet she's bringing some serious mileage.
According to Running Times "A big week in training usually tops out at about 60 miles"
http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/brenda-martinezs-solo-actAccording to her Twitter feed she tops out at 70 (see old LR thread).
Low mileage, hard days, same as Estrada. I don't know what Diego's recovery speed is.
FYI those are not the times she was making but the times that Vigil thinks she needs to make in order to be world class. That's why from those times it seems she's in sub-15min shape when she's nowhere close to that IRL.
e57yij wrote:
i wish someone could explain this. her threshold/tempo workouts look like the stuff of a 30:30/14:40 athlete would do.
I agree this stuff looks insane for a 1:57/4:00 runner who can grind it to approach 15:30 in a 5k.
One thing is that the faster tempos (5:0x pace) are all in Vigil's "anaerobic tempo" designation and thus 3-4 miles, where the longer ones (5-6 miles at 5:50) are in his "aerobic tempo" category and more like a "classic" tempo, between 10k-half marathon pace (projected) for her. But still, those short tempos would be near exactly race efforts for her.
Three very hard workouts, M-W-F. Impressive.
Les wrote:
Interesting. No long run. She doesn't say what event she's training for -- 800 or 1500?
Isn't 10 miles long for an 800 runner?
Someone set us up