Those of you train for 800m and do lactate threshold training (or whatever you want to call it), how much do you do it in the competitive phase? Keep it the same or reduce it? Doesn't matter on your level of running, just curious.
Those of you train for 800m and do lactate threshold training (or whatever you want to call it), how much do you do it in the competitive phase? Keep it the same or reduce it? Doesn't matter on your level of running, just curious.
We shift it into maintenance mode for a lot of our competitive phase (last 1.5-2 months of the season) for most athletes. Some that are more 800m or 800m/1500m runners will still have a dedicated LT workout here and there, but it's usually put in between harder meets or bigger workouts to keep from burning kids down too much.
A lot of 800m runners can get away with peppering in 1-2 reps of LT pace into a workout and maintain the benefits for a very long time. The bigger part of the equation is almost always making sure our specific workouts and races don't get out of hand as opposed to not doing enough LT sessions.
When I was running my best we would do it a few times a month, sometimes as a full 8 mile progression run finishing pretty damn hard, and sometimes something as short as 10 minutes at 8k-10k pace before a few hard 200s. The progression runs we're early season, though, and the shorter tempos before faster reps, and other short tempo workouts (3xmile or 4x5min) were for maintenance later in season.