Dibaba rumored 6x8 session!!

Email the speedendurance guys if it's really THAT important to you, dude. Holy wow. Pathological perseveration at its finest on display. I vote you most likely to have a drifter buried in your backyard.

The Spork wrote:

"Recupero 2'". Strange people here on this forum.

http://imgur.com/Bqicv7N

So...someone says that someone says that it happened? On anonymous Imgur?

Where is Dibaba saying it happened?

I just used imgur so you wouldn't miss that pic from the speedendurance homepage. I don't know of anywhere that Dibaba has stated this. As I told the other ocd psycho, feel free to contact the admin at speedendurance if you won't be able to sleep tonight not knowing.

Without being psychotically angry and rude, the other posters are simply stating that the sources posted aren't what you'd call credible.

The interview where Dibaba says she had a session of 6x800m does not mention recovery at all, and that is important, nothing to do with obsessive compulsive disorder.

If you think critically analysing sources for reliability is psychotic then you must work for the tabloids!

I feel like she made this up to scare the rest of the world. There is no way she could do this haha it's so unrealistic. Sure she broke the world record, but I doubt that guys who run in the high 3:30's could even do this workout. I watched a flotrack video of David Torrence a few years ago doing 800s and none of them were that fast...and he's a 1:45/3:33/13:16 guy. This is Dibaba propaganda if anything haha.

Just in case anyone was wondering, that website speedendurance.com has a lot of shit and click bait on it. Read for yourself. Articles such as "How to break 2:00 for the 800m", which includes a bunch of useless text followed by one 'magic' workout; 12x300m in 43-45s. Please.

I've read all of your logs that you've made public (there are other years I'd like to see), and they are notable for the absence of big workouts, a point you were, I believe attempting to make obliquely on another recent thread.

I expect this point is lost on many of the posters in this thread.

If the reporting of Dibaba's workout is accurate, either she's about to become broken, or she's going to put the 1500m world record way out of reach of mortals.

thisandthis wrote:

Yes setting a WR can overcome lots of fatigue at the end of a race, but she may be able to go faster. She claims to have been focusing on 5000 training.

Her being able to go faster shouldn't even be debatable. This is true even without her changing her training.

I can confirm a session as this for Genzebe with only smal differences for split times but very close. Waxaan rajeynayaa in sida ugu fiican ee iyada !!

ijenns318 wrote:

I feel like she made this up to scare the rest of the world. There is no way she could do this haha it's so unrealistic. Sure she broke the world record, but I doubt that guys who run in the high 3:30's could even do this workout. I watched a flotrack video of David Torrence a few years ago doing 800s and none of them were that fast...and he's a 1:45/3:33/13:16 guy. This is Dibaba propaganda if anything haha.

Guys who run high 3:39 can do this workout, but they would be working. We're talking a 3:50 100m runner, not a 3:39.

To be fair, the training that I posted was, in YARDS, on a track so crappy that even Africans haven't run, and in weather conditions (cold, windy) not usually conducive to fast running. They were also part of a bigger picture with other training sessions. Still, none of those similar sessions approach what Dibaba purportedly did.

malmo wrote:

Guys who run high 3:39 can do this workout, but they would be working. We're talking a 3:50 100m runner, not a 3:39.

To be fair, the training that I posted was, in YARDS, on a track so crappy that even Africans haven't run, and in weather conditions (cold, windy) not usually conducive to fast running. They were also part of a bigger picture with other training sessions. Still, none of those similar sessions approach what Dibaba purportedly did.

But she's not a 3:50 runner. She is obviously faster than that by a few seconds based on the way she ran that race. You also don't know what the rest was in between her 800s, or was the 2:00 rest real?

J Aden wrote:

I can confirm a session as this for Genzebe with only smal differences for split times but very close. Waxaan rajeynayaa in sida ugu fiican ee iyada !!

Mr Aden, you speak Somali!

How much was the recovery? 3:00? 5:00? 400 jog?

Looking at some of the articles on Aden's program, you can see that he has a number of hard high volume workouts with big rests in between. 7 min seems to be a common thread - so this workout may very well have been;

6x800m with 7min rec - which given her 3:50 and aerobic capacity, looks a little more reasonable. Still, it's a monster of a session.

malmo wrote:

To be fair, the training that I posted was, in YARDS, on a track so crappy that even Africans haven\'t run

BS.

You have obviously never been to Eldoret, let alone Iten.

jesus christ, why the hell is this even a thing?! Those splits sound like what Rudisha would have run for this workout in 2012! There is no way in hell Dibaba ran that. 1:58 for the 6th one with only 2 minute break in between each? get the f*ck out of here haha this is hilarious.

JRinaldi wrote:

Looking at some of the articles on Aden's program, you can see that he has a number of hard high volume workouts with big rests in between. 7 min seems to be a common thread - so this workout may very well have been;

6x800m with 7min rec - which given her 3:50 and aerobic capacity, looks a little more reasonable. Still, it's a monster of a session.

I posted the same thought a few pages back. But the 1:58 at the end of that session still seems insane for a 3:50 runner, so I think we can be sure she will run substantially faster.

So no one knows the type or length of rest during this workout? That makes a world of difference.

In HS I had a 4:27/2:06 PR and did 6x800 @ 2:12 but it was with a standing rest of 2:00 or so and mile jog between each set of 2.

Alan

Then why does Horwill specifically say 45 secs and state the times of each rep on his training page? Were you there? Horwill was. I would tend to believe so done who was there.

In a L'Equipe interview in 81 Coe said he ran a series of 800's, can't recall if it was 4 or 6, but I can check, with all around the 1:50-1:52 mark, the last in 1:46.9, with 90 sec rest between reps. He also states on film in his documentary that his rest was generally 1.5 to 2 mins.

Staggered wrote:

In a L'Equipe interview in 81 Coe said he ran a series of 800's, can't recall if it was 4 or 6, but I can check, with all around the 1:50-1:52 mark, the last in 1:46.9, with 90 sec rest between reps. He also states on film in his documentary that his rest was generally 1.5 to 2 mins.

On a downhill road, with a running start, measured by the odometer in his father's car (there's a documentary on youtube where you can see this workout)