Well the breaking 30:00 10k thread has been popular and enlightening--how about the sub 14:00 5k thread? For those speedsters who have broken 14:00 in the 5k, what was your training like? How many miles did you run? What kind of workouts? How much did you taper for key races. (Also, I live at altitude. How might one modify a 5k training schedule for altitude?)
Thanks.
Oh yes, and did you do any substantial cross training or lifting?
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I think you would be better suited to cross dressing and shirt lifting
60-70 mpw
2 x wo per week. Stuff like 6 x 800m short recover, ladders. More fartlek, hills in off season
Always did some upper body stuff, push ups, pull ups etc
long run of about 12 miles
before I ran target 5k I would run 1500m races
tapering for a big race would be @ 50 mpw.
For last big 5k of season (I could only run 2 or maybe 3 per season well) I would run maybe 30 miles that week.
Altitude- i have no idea, I trained in the Bronx