Any thoughts on training for the 1500meters at altitude?
Any thoughts on training for the 1500meters at altitude?
Dont do it
Just run baby!!
maybe mid base building - otherwise, no - you cannot run as fast at altitude for anything over ~400m. basically, unless you know what you are doing - and since you are asking, you don't - so don't do it.
What altitude?
People try to make too big of a deal out of altitude. It definitely affects how fast you can run, but that doesn't mean you need to change your training much if at all. It just means you need to adjust your training times (threshold, VO2 max, speed reps, etc).
the altitude would be 5500ft
how about the effects of altitude training for a 1500m runner. There would be obvious benefits for training at altitude the higher in distance you race such as 5km, 10km, marathon...but, how much improvement could you actually see as a 1500m runner if you did some altitude training? even 800m?
another question wrote:
how about the effects of altitude training for a 1500m runner. There would be obvious benefits for training at altitude the higher in distance you race such as 5km, 10km, marathon...but, how much improvement could you actually see as a 1500m runner if you did some altitude training? even 800m?
Nobody here is going to be able to answer that for you. It's going to vary from person to person and is affected by many factors. Overall I think altitude training is overrated. I'm not saying it doesn't help, because I think it does, but many runners have had success without it (BK for example), and if it really helped that much, wouldn't schools at altitude be killing everyone in xc?
To try and give you an answer, I'd say it would maybe help you cut off one second or less if you're a 4:00 miler or faster, but I'm not a physiologist. I do know, however, that training at altitude is harder than at sea-level meaning you have to build up your mileage slower and it takes longer to recover.