Hardest workouts you have ever done?

I'm suprised people haven't called shennanigans yet on any of these. Most seem reasonable but to MAUI you are basically running between 4:04-3:56 on your last set of 400's. And that's at the end of your workout. Come on dude, unless you were significantly under 4 minutes for a mile i'm calling bull. And I've heard of York doing some crazy stuff but unless the dude posting was Sage I don't think they had anyone doing 25 x 400 in 65 with only a minute rest. I'm a 4:05 miler and I wouldn't even touch that workout.

20 x 400 at 62 with a 45 second jog - raced 13:39 within 2 weeks

6 x 800 in 2:10 with a 90 second lap as recovery for each - raced 28:21 within 2 weeks

Run easy hour to get pre-fatigued.

Then, alternating quarters, one steady quarter followed by mile-race-pace quarter and then back up again. Do it until I can't hold pace. Like the Oregon 30/40 but, of course, slower.

60 miles to school.

runningart2004 wrote:

Not running but...

20 rep squats with your 10rm on the bar is always fun.

Alan

Alan, how could you do 20 squats with your 10RM on the bar??? By definition, wouldn't you be maxed at 10?

1200m- 3.07

Straight into 8 miles @5.20

1200- 3.12

I was a 4.05 miler at the time.

the 4 miles x 2 with 1 min rest at hm pace, maybe even a bit too taxing, I had a much harder time handling that pace on the race than on the workout.

"Limitless", are your initials TA or TL, by chance? Good possibility that 20x400 was done at Lewis and Clark College's track?

Sorry, but no. This was a LONG time ago.

When I was a miler in the beginning of college we did 4 x 400 at mile goal race pace with 20 seconds jog to start rest (190 meter indoor track). Essentially ran my goal mile adding 1 minute spread out for rest.

You're replying to my post yet I feel like you're not responding to me...

lease wrote:

runningart2004 wrote:

Not running but...

20 rep squats with your 10rm on the bar is always fun.

Alan

Alan, how could you do 20 squats with your 10RM on the bar??? By definition, wouldn't you be maxed at 10?

They're called breathing squats, once you almost hit failure, you stand and catch your breath (without racking the weight), before doing singles to hit 20. It is brutal, but can put a ton of weight onto your squat max in a very short period of time.

4 sets of 3x200, 1x300. started at around 800m pace and started dying. couldnt walk after and had to take breaks from walking on my way home

JRT wrote:

Wow...these workouts just crazy.

Yes, especially that one 3x400 workout.

My hardest workout was 2x400 with equal rest to the interval time. Once, I did 6x400 with double time rest, and still have flashbacks.

Wednesday: AM 7 miles easy on trails. PM 3 mile warm-up 10 minutes of stair running. 32 x 400m in 66 with 400m jog. 80 meter explosions. 2 mile cool down. (longest day ever!)

Bwahahahahaha wrote:

Wednesday: AM 7 miles easy on trails. PM 3 mile warm-up 10 minutes of stair running. 32 x 400m in 66 with 400m jog. 80 meter explosions. 2 mile cool down. (longest day ever!)

+1

We always dreaded one of our championship season workouts for cross. Not sure it qualifies as my "hardest ever" but it hold a special place.

2 miles hard (20-30 seconds faster than tempo pace)

10 minutes rest/jog

2 miles hard (attempt to run faster than the first one)

10 minutes rest/jog

800m @ ~date mile pace

5 minutes rest/jog

800m pretty much all out

I was also a big fan of our 3x800 at 1500m pace (+3 seconds, even, -3 seconds). Not because it's an unthinkable workout or anything, but because it scales so well for most mile types, and that last 8 is a killer. I think we finished that one up with 200s or whatever.

50 x 100m

I've done that as well and they're brutal. Another time I did the 20 reps at the end of a hard 5x5 squat workout. Used about 65-70% of max squat weight for the 20. Felt sick for hours after.

letsbang wrote:

lease wrote:

Alan, how could you do 20 squats with your 10RM on the bar??? By definition, wouldn't you be maxed at 10?

They're called breathing squats, once you almost hit failure, you stand and catch your breath (without racking the weight), before doing singles to hit 20. It is brutal, but can put a ton of weight onto your squat max in a very short period of time.