1:56.02 and a lot of excuses - “I’m in the early phase of training, haven’t done too much speed yet”
Lol I like cheering against him too, but no chance he doesnt break 1:55. Hes a sub four miler. Annoying for sure, but 1:55 is not even close to fast for his caliber.
1:56.02 and a lot of excuses - “I’m in the early phase of training, haven’t done too much speed yet”
Lol I like cheering against him too, but no chance he doesnt break 1:55. Hes a sub four miler. Annoying for sure, but 1:55 is not even close to fast for his caliber.
1:53.9
I like Spence but he’s nowhere near sun four shape right now.
I was reading an old thread about 800 training that had Joe Rubio dropping serious knowledge. Joe had a great post that I think applied to Spencer really accurately: basically he was talking about how guys make the mistake of trying to focus on one aspect of training specifically instead of making sure all aspects are present all the time and just adjusting the percentages as the season goes on. The best nugget was that 800 pace should feel like "taking a dump, natural and often," as you progress your season from doing short strides at 800 pace to eventually doing stuff like 3x 600 with long recovery, but the race pace stuff is always there at some level. For guys that don't do that, he says they often don't run consistently and can yo-yo between a low 1:50 or like 1:55. To me, this could not more accurately describe Spencer's current training, as he decides he wants to focus on Zone 2 training and then goes to focuses on pure speed. This could just be the stuff he posts for videos and maybe his training is more balanced in actuality but I worry he really is as all over the place as his video thumbnails suggest. Given this, I'm guessing he'll run a tough 1:54. I'd love to see him run better but, based on the limited window I've had into his training, I don't think it's gonna be pretty.
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Also yeah Spence, that's what happens when you do nothing but easy runs and threshold workouts for 6 months straight, you die after any amount of lactate builds up. Going 53-29 in a 6 is ridiculous, think if he had another 200!
Also yeah Spence, that's what happens when you do nothing but easy runs and threshold workouts for 6 months straight, you die after any amount of lactate builds up. Going 53-29 in a 6 is ridiculous, think if he had another 200!
I mean that's the point of the 600 time trial. Put some lactate in the body so the race isn't as much of a shock. I think he could run as fast as 1:50 high if he splits it 54-56
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Also yeah Spence, that's what happens when you do nothing but easy runs and threshold workouts for 6 months straight, you die after any amount of lactate builds up. Going 53-29 in a 6 is ridiculous, think if he had another 200!
I mean that's the point of the 600 time trial. Put some lactate in the body so the race isn't as much of a shock.
Hopefully not too little too late. If I were him and had to emulate a training program, it would be what Warhurst has Hobbs Kessler doing which is by focusing a lot of aerobic capacity but still hitting speed and lactic stuff all year. Not trying to run a cheap knock-off version of the Ingebrigtsen's program.
Also yeah Spence, that's what happens when you do nothing but easy runs and threshold workouts for 6 months straight, you die after any amount of lactate builds up. Going 53-29 in a 6 is ridiculous, think if he had another 200!
He has been doing a lot of things besides easy runs and threshold. I don’t know about his rust buster, but he’s going to have a much better season than last year.
And if he were running an 800, he would not go out in 53 (standing start and windy and solo also). He intentionally went out unreasonably hard in this TT. I’m guessing 1:51 for his race. He’s made a lot of errors, sure, but not everything he does is wrong.
I’m thinking he should try running this 800m like Dave Wottle, controlled early on, cranking it down but-by-bit for that last all-out 200m. I’m rooting for him to break 1:50.