I guessed...
12:15 (4:55p)
7:15 (4:50p)
4:40
It seemed like cutdown workout to me, but he ran the exact same pace (4:48) for the 4k as he did for the 2.4k. Just a LT run broken up. Seems like it would be easy for a guy like Lagat, but I guess strength has been an issue for him in the past if he's that happy.
Q; What COULD Lagat do . . . .?
A: A lot faster than that.
Why would the NYT (or Lagat, for that matter) even mention a workout like that?
I can do that workout and I'm a minute slower than Lagat in the 5k.
Just shows you that every workout should have a purpose and it isn't necessary to kill yourself.
To throw off the competition. I'm pretty sure in my heyday I could have done that workout. It would have been pretty close to all out though.
I realize we're all just speculating here, but I still wonder why the article mentions the workout in this context:
"Returning home recently to Tucson, Lagat said, he did a series of track intervals: two and a half miles in 11:54, a three-minute rest, a mile and a half in 7:14, another three-minute rest, and a mile in 4:38.
"'It tells me from the workouts I’m doing that I’m strong and I’m fast,” Lagat said."
How does that particular workout tell him that he's strong and fast? For a guy who can run sub-13, that would seem to be a fairly light threshold workout with generous rest periods. I'm not saying that it's a bad or inappropriate workout for Lagat or anyone else, but it still seems odd that it would be discussed in that manner and context, as though it says something about his current fitness level.
That's fair. Maybe it says something about Lagat's training paces? Maybe he doesn't blow his wad (like other top american milers) in workouts just to beat his chest? It's intriguing to say the least.
i guessed 10:55, 6:12, and 4:01.....i was way fast, but he is a world-class runner.
I doubt he was going all out, not to mention he was at altitude. He might have been doing it by himself also.
it may be that after years of hard training & top times, lagat may have such an incredibly high level of residual fitness that he doesn't need to do monster workouts
he may simply need to do seemingly quite "light" workouts just to maintain this & "maintain" allows him to go 3'28 - 3'30 at his current peak
Bernard mentioned he was happy with his race, but he has not really started any true speedwork yet, so he feels he will only get faster. Impressive.
wowowowowow wrote:
WOW I was sooo far off. I guessed much faster than that.
ROFLMFAO..I do that with my shoelaces tied together.
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