What is the purpose of 200 meter repeats? | 1600 meters training

You really dogged those first ten.

kmaclam wrote:

You really dogged those first ten.

Indeed. They said to run at mile pace, and my shape right now is only about 5:20 lows.

Yeah idk what youre coach was thinking lol thats way too many 200's for mile training, especially since so much of it was faster than race pace. Should've been around half that many, and at this point in the season I personally wouldn't have even done a race pace specific workout. I usually do "ends to middle" so a lot of 400/800 pace and 3200/5k pace

It's equal to 10x400, which isn't a crazy workout

Shorter burst and pace work this early in the season isn't bad

So the purpose was to get you used to mile pace for 2 1/2 miles worth of interval training.

And at 200m a time, you should be able to stay on pace better than 10X400.

The volume still provides some fitness, but it's more of a turnover workout.

You can go two ways from here:

Make it a 10X400 next time and then 5X800 and then back to 10X400

Later, go 10X200 at a faster pace, between 800 and mile pace.