I have an 800m race on Sunday and am trying to plan what to do the week of. Currently my plan is as follows: Is this ideal and should I be doing a time trial or a predictor session such as 3x400m?
Day 1: 600m Time Trial
Day 2: Easy 30-40 mins
Day 3: 8x150m
Day 4: Easy 30-40 mins
Day 5: Rest
Day 6: Warmup + Strides
Day 7: 800m Race
What's the point of doing a "predictor" workout? The way I see it, you either underperform and it messes with your head, or you crush it and are not able to recover fully I'm time for when it really counts.
Just do a scaled-down, sped-up version of a workout you would normally do 6 days before an important race.
What have you been doing? Is this the final or goal race? At this point if this is the last race I would just do 8x200 at 800 pace to a second faster as the hay is on the barn and you don't want to take anything from the race. If not 3x400 (5min rest) is a better option as this point then 600m time trial I would say.
I would do 8x200 with a little more rest than normal , something like 90s for each rep except for the 4th where you can take 3-4 minutes. You could do that at 0.5 - 1 second faster per 200 than your 800 pace. Or you could just do 6x200 faster than 800 pace by 1 second with 2 min rest , then rest 10 minutes and do 3x150 all out with 6-8 minutes of rest . 600m time trial is not necessary , that would be better done two weeks before not 1.
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