Just ran 3x500 with 10 mins rest at 1:12, 1:08, 1:10
What does this predict roughly for an 800m?
I ran 1:57 last year and hoping for 1:52 this year.
Just ran 3x500 with 10 mins rest at 1:12, 1:08, 1:10
What does this predict roughly for an 800m?
I ran 1:57 last year and hoping for 1:52 this year.
Nice quality session ... hard to exactly predict 800m from just this, though. 10 min is a lot of rest. Not to say it's a bad workout, just difficult to extrapolate to 800.
Best way to use this as a predictor for yourself? Conpare to last year. You ran 1:57. Did you do this 3 x 500m last year? If so, how did it compare? Same rest but slower times? Same times but now with less rest?
Or, is this your first time doing 3 x 500 w/ 10' rest? If so, did you do anything similar last year and how did it compare? Like 3 x 400 or 3 x 450? Or maybe 500, 400, 300?
Listen to the above advice—who you are as a runner will dictate what kind of shape this workout indicates.
But also, those error bars will be in a range you’ll like very much. Unless you were truncating a “.7,” “.8,” or “.9” at the end of each of those times, you’re likely in very near 1:52 shape right now, if not a little better. That 1:08, especially (and not imploding after), indicates low-1:50s isn’t off the table. And I don’t think anyone could do that workout without being in at least 1:54-1:55 shape.
In college, 1-2 weeks before a peak race, I used to do:
3 x 500, 30 sec rest, 300
I’d do about 10 minutes full recovery between sets.
Each time it predicted my 800 race to the second.
Lenny Leonard wrote:
In college, 1-2 weeks before a peak race, I used to do:
3 x 500, 30 sec rest, 300
I’d do about 10 minutes full recovery between sets.
Each time it predicted my 800 race to the second.
How did the prediction work from the times you ran, Lenny? Average time of the 500s + time of the 300?
Yes, so if OP could run 3x(:72,:44), it would predict 1:56.
I can't imagine running that 3x(500,300) workout in 1:56 shape. Sounds brutal.
The week of my 1:57 i ran this exact workout and didnt do great at all, i ran 1:12, 1:16 and then had to cut the last rep short as i had nothing so im obviously in better shape but it was also clearly a bad day so hard to compare really.
I think it was 1:12.2, 1:08.4 and 1:10 flat.
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