Years ago I came across a training program supposedly used at Oregon back in the day for their milers. I remember what abbreviations like GP (goal pace), 400GP (400m GP), GP-1 (goal pace minus 1), and DP (date pace) are but it also has AP on a couple of workouts. For instance, 5 x800AP with 400jog recovery. A month later, it has 4 x1200AP with 600jog recovery. Then about 3 weeks later, it has 3 x 1600AP with 800jog recovery. Considering that most of the other workouts revolve around 400m, 800m, and mile race pace, I am guessing that AP is probably VO2 Max pace or 3k race pace. There doesn't seem to be much work at that pace in the plan, at least not over the last serveral months. Just those 3 workouts. Anyone familiar with this plan?
A basic progression on mile pace is:
Week 1-8x400@DP-1/400j
Week 2 - 8x400@DP-1/300j
Week 3 - 5x600@DP-1/500j
Week 4 - 8x400@DP-1/200j
If anyone knows what the AP is more specifically, I would appreciate your insight.