TheAthleteSpecial transitioning to pure anaerobic work

He’s gonna run 3:25 this outdoor season and send Letsrun home devastated

i mean he litearlly runs a tempo workout during the video, so im not to sure what you are on about in terms of this purely anaerobic training plan

Which one of you guys punched him?

Alan

Yea, what was that about?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m usually not a big fan of his training, but if you’re gonna run 40-60 miles a week you damn well should be doing speed work because there’s no point in not doing it with such little volume

He needs to RUN on over and get a REAL JOB.

Peter Snell ran pretty well from 6 months of all aerobic work into 3 months of all anerobic work(with 1 long run day) But Spencer wasn't working as hard in the aerobic period and doesn't have the talent to sprint as fast as Snell.

Such a committed athlete

He discovered polarized training after 10-12 years in the sport?

Yeah to some extent this the work he should be doing. Ignoring speed like he did was crazy for a 1500m guy. Do 2 thresholds/week and then a day of sprints for 12 weeks and then do some race specific stuff. Granted he probably should be doing an easy hour in the morning of the sprint day...

I guarantee you it was Jamin. Dudes been in an angry headspace and green lake isn’t big enough for the both of em.

Anyways, he did a 4 mile tempo at 5:0something pace earlier that week, seems like a good base week for an 8/15 athlete but I think it’s fair to say he’s throwing in the towel with the 5000m.

To his credit his mechanics looked very smooth during the speed work, you’d want a bit faster than mostly 13 second reps off of a running start but I guess it’s a place to start.

The tempo looked good in terms of his strength on a road. The speed work was not great though. 8x100m is a bad speed session since its pretty long for max velocity. He should be hitting for at least one rep 11.5 or under with a running start if he has any hope for the 400m.

I honestly don’t think 100m reps are an awful speed session, definitely a bit more in the realm of speed endurance, but me and my teammate (49 high 48 low) will occasionally do a 12x100m session where we jog 300m, I’ll usually average 12 low and him 11 high with our fastest reps being low-mid 11s. I’d say I can use that as a reference point to say Spence will need to get some more weight room and velocity work to run sub 50 again.

As always I’ll preface by saying I enjoyed his video…

but he went from running the Stanford 5k trying to break 14…

to having a crummy workout last wk and saying he was gonna hold off and gain more fitness and try and run a track 5k in May to now saying the heck and running some mom and pop 5k and u call yourself a pro?

I mean spencer, ppl do want u to run well and do well but you give yourself a easy target bc there is no serious commitment.

We had the 337 project that abruptly ended

now we have the 1359 project that appears to be ending.

Next week we will have the 48 sec project and when that fails we will have the 10 sec 100 project.

his tempo run alone in that video should had shown him running the road more seriously should be his project. I mean his heart is in the mike but even if he runs 3:55/3:54…. So what? Even that may not be enough yet to USATF champs.most college meets guys run that every wknd now.

Why is he pretending to run 100m sprints?

Those sprints ate nowhere near 100m.

wow someone punched him? in what video did he say this?

L post. It's called periodization, it's when you switch your training focus at different phases in a training cycle. He's adding some speed endurance work as he gets closer to race season. Not that difficult to figure out.

think Spencer has been periodizing every 3 weeks since graduating then...

L post.