based on off of 16x400 with a minute rest at 2 mile pace (based off of feel) ran the first 8 at 70 and the last 8 at 68 and felt very comfortable....how fast do u think i could run a 2 mile on the track
based on off of 16x400 with a minute rest at 2 mile pace (based off of feel) ran the first 8 at 70 and the last 8 at 68 and felt very comfortable....how fast do u think i could run a 2 mile on the track
9:10
8:14
7:58
IF, and i say IF you have the wind at your back, about 7:49.
I ran 8x400 @ 70 a couple years ago and ran 9:12 not long after. You should be able to get under 9:10.
Terminator X wrote:
I ran 8x400 @ 70 a couple years ago and ran 9:12 not long after. You should be able to get under 9:10.
Are you serious? You should be able to do 8x400 at your mile pace, even with short rest. I usually suck at workouts and perform at a much higher level in races, but even I could do 12x400 in sub 70 with 1 minute rest before I ran 9:24 for 2 miles. 8x400 in 70 does not predict 9:12, that is more like a 9:50 guy's workout
Yeah I don't know if that workout is going to tell you too much about your 2 mile.
I ran 12 x 400 @ 72 w/ minute rests and it was very comfortable, felt very easy and I wasn't going anywhere under 10:20 for 2 miles.
Stop trying to make the kid feel crappy about himself. I ran 6x400 with 2-3 mins rest in 75 and was balling it (for me), and ran 9:48.
i ran that workout once and then ripped off a 7:20 3k shortly after.
you'll run your 2 mile faster than teg can run a 10k.
why you ask?
a) a 2 mile is shorter than a 10k, its just math, asshole.
b) Matt tegenkamp doesn't run the 10k.
i ran 8x400 in 66/67 a few weeks before a 9:16. so i would say sub 9:16 9:00-9:10 probably
cmurph wrote:
Terminator X wrote:I ran 8x400 @ 70 a couple years ago and ran 9:12 not long after. You should be able to get under 9:10.
Are you serious? You should be able to do 8x400 at your mile pace, even with short rest. I usually suck at workouts and perform at a much higher level in races, but even I could do 12x400 in sub 70 with 1 minute rest before I ran 9:24 for 2 miles. 8x400 in 70 does not predict 9:12, that is more like a 9:50 guy's workout
Well it was pretty much that workout and 3 mile tempos at 5:30ish pace for most of my season, just sharing my personal experience. The rest was always shorter though I think, maybe a minute? Don't remember. Now that I think about it though as the season went on the workout progressed to stuff like 2x800 4x400 and 1x1200 1x800 3x400 all at the same pace, it was supposed to simulate a 9:20 which was my goal on the season. Last 400 all out every time. Some days I'd struggle to hit 71's on the workout.
My junior year though (under a different coach) I did stuff like 10x400 starting around 70 and working down to 57-58 for the last ones, usually taking about a second or so off each interval. Rest was longer obviously, again don't remember what it was though. I think it kind of varied each time depending upon workout groups and all that. That year my pr was in the mid 9:30's though, so I guess that just goes to show how hard it is to give good estimates based off a single workout.
(I've also always been terrible in workouts compared to races, at least in high school. I was only able to do those junior year workouts cause there was usually an 800 running the last 300 with me, or sitting out every third one or something... was alone senior year)
i knew someone who ran a workout structured like that (15x400) in 75s, and he was around 10:00 flat solo during workout.
Now that i think about it, it was a different workout since the recovery was one minute.
to the OP, how fast do YOU think you can run the 2 mile?
13:15
Are you guys kidding me? In high school my team would do 10x400m workouts in between 66-70 with the last couple around 62-64. I found the workout pretty tough but do-able.
Some of those guys were ok(10:00 2 mile) but I never broke 10:30!!!!
Did anybody else experience this or was I alone in my underachieving?
It depends a lot on whether the OP is a hs or college runner. High school runners, who don't have much base training, pound out these sick 400s in workouts but have a hard time cracking 10:00. They run their first 400 at their workout pace, but then hit a bunch of 77s in the middle of the race.
College guys, on the other hand, run the same 400 times in workouts but then get on the track and even the average ones run 9:05-9:20. The difference is that the college guys have the mileage base and the lactate threshold to hold the pace in the middle.
helpppp wrote:
based on off of 16x400 with a minute rest at 2 mile pace (based off of feel) ran the first 8 at 70 and the last 8 at 68 and felt very comfortable....how fast do u think i could run a 2 mile on the track
There is a very good test you can do to predict your 2M time that is quite similar to the workout you outlined. Just reduce the rest by 60 seconds and do 8 instead of 16 reps, then compute the aggregate time. Your 2M time should be very close to this. Good luck!
reduce the rest from two minutes to zero minutes and do 8 of them at 2-mile race pace.