Looking for a bit of analysis from those on LetsRun. I recently had run a mile paced workout(5days ago), 10x300m w/ 100m jog rest. I haven’t opened my indoor season yet, but I am wanting to do so within the next few weeks. My question is… Based off the splits below, what will my mile time be?
This workout is extremely strong. You must be a top D1 athlete or elite athlete. I'd guess roughly 3:54.
HOWEVER ... I'm assuming you jogged your 100s at easy run jogging pace, like 30 seconds or less. If you crawled those 100s in 50 seconds or something, then this goes from an extremely low rest workout to just a standard interval workout, and that changes everything. So here are my predictions
300m is no good as you have not done out of sprint range.
eg runner 8 x 300m same rec 4:35 pr
off your workout I have observed 4:05 to 4:15
But its all down to effort and we are not watching you. Easy hard jogging its all meaningless.
400m removes that if you run them hard and all in similar time no relaxed bs as there is a massive difference between 300m and 400m reps. Runner A would struggle to do 10 in 67 but could run 44-46 x 10 off that recovery. B & C would do 42-44 ut could run closer to 60 - (their mile pr / 4 average
Do the right predictor or work it out yourself or get the ids on here to pretend they know
I realized that I should have added this weeks run schedule and workout paces so that you all get a the full sense of my current fitness level. This weeks break down of mileage:
I appreciate your honesty, I do most of my workouts at threshold. My exact threshold (3:04/km) was lab tested last year in April. I have not had a chance to race any other races since September, where I ran an 8k at high altitude(2200m) in 23:58. However, I believed that the 8k wasn’t enough data to convince my self to pay for lab testing so I haven’t had a chance to update training paces. I don’t represent a college team, I’m coaching myself so I’m a bit lost.
Bro your results are all over the place, altitude 23:58 8k is also in the range of sub 4 material. I’m gonna call it even and say you’re around 4:05 rn. I don’t understand how your thresholds and stuff are so slow though I was doing that stuff when I was a 4:25 miler
Also you don’t need to do a lab test to find workout paces my guy, do your tempos comfortably hard and stop stressing abott it the exact pace. And interval workouts you should know about where you’re at so if you’re doing like 6x800 just estimate where you’ll be and start out around 2:18 or something, if that’s way too easy just go faster and you’ll know from that workout where you are. Nobody I know or work with has ever done a lab test to find out how fast to run on easy days. Just experiment and base it on effort.
Thanks, my easy runs are by effort already. I won’t start doing mile specific workouts until outdoor. I will however, as a better gauge of fitness, do a harder workout like 12x400m@mile in a month or so to see if anything has changed and will experiment with workout paces until then.