If you have a PR's of 1:50 for 800 and 3:02 for 1200m relay split...your 1500m or mile should be ???
If you have a PR's of 1:50 for 800 and 3:02 for 1200m relay split...your 1500m or mile should be ???
3:55 1500 based on the 1200. Considering the 800 speed, potential is there to run faster if you're a miler and train like it.
I'd say you either are not made to be a 1500 man, or you just haven't trained to be one. 1:50 is far better than 3:02. I was a 2:57 guy off of a 1:53 pr, but I definitely tended towards longer distances.
3:55? I thought it would be more like after a 3:02ish 1200m
finish with a strong 45 sec last 300m for a 3:47? or is that last 300m that tough?
Yeah, you normally speed up when the race gets longer. Just run all out for 1200 meters and then sprint even faster the last 300...sounds easy enough.
Everyone is different, but when I was in college, a guy in our league had an 800 PR of 1:51 and a 1500 PR of 3:51. Fortunately he was no good after 3000 meters - fortunately for me that is.
If you run your max effort for 1200 and then try to keep going for an additional 300 meters, yes, you will slow way down. There's a difference between racing a 1200 and running the first 1200 of a 1500 race. Unless of course your 3:02 was not your max effort. Your 800 suggests you could run between 3:45-3:50 for 1500.
1500m predictor - 800m time X2. 1:50 X2 = 3:40.
Obviously only works if you train specifically for the 1500m.
"3:55? I thought it would be more like after a 3:02ish 1200m finish with a strong 45 sec last 300m for a 3:47? or is that last 300m that tough?"
Ha Ha... that's a good one... for a second I thought you were seriously thinking that was a possibility.
Agreed. I know a couple of guys who have run much slower for 800 and much faster for 1200; but I imagine you race 800 far more frequently than you race 1200, so inexperience may have led to your 1200 meter race being relatively worse than your 800.
A couple of guys at my school ran something like this in the past couple of years:
1:55/2:55/3:48
1:54/2:57/3:46
Thanks for the inputs, a 2:55 1200m would put me at 1:46 for shore if I can run that. Obviously the Longer I go over 800m the more I stink up the track. Oh by the way I know some people who can run a blazing 1200m and run a 37-38 for the last 300m....54 sec last 400m.
Grammer correction for sure if I can run that.
" I know some people who can run a blazing 1200m and run a 37-38 for the last 300m....54 sec last 400m"
No doubt... and what is really amazing is when they run their 1200m BEST and THEN tack on a 37 or 38. The kind of guys that do that are impressive.