Training for 10km:
workouts - 5 to 6 mile tempo runs, 6-8 x 1km @ slightly faster than 10km pace with 90 sec rest, hills, strides once a week, med-high mileage
anyone have this happen, explanation on why? concentrate on 800m?
Training for 10km:
workouts - 5 to 6 mile tempo runs, 6-8 x 1km @ slightly faster than 10km pace with 90 sec rest, hills, strides once a week, med-high mileage
anyone have this happen, explanation on why? concentrate on 800m?
How old are you?
No, but I've had the opposite happen, i.e. PRing in longer distances while training for shorter ones.
Wise Guy wrote:
No, but I've had the opposite happen, i.e. PRing in longer distances while training for shorter ones.
maybe I should try that approach, any chance you could post a snapshot of what your training looked like then
skip wrote:
Wise Guy wrote:No, but I've had the opposite happen, i.e. PRing in longer distances while training for shorter ones.
maybe I should try that approach, any chance you could post a snapshot of what your training looked like then
Nope!
skip wrote:
Training for 10km:
workouts - 5 to 6 mile tempo runs, 6-8 x 1km @ slightly faster than 10km pace with 90 sec rest, hills, strides once a week, med-high mileage
anyone have this happen, explanation on why? concentrate on 800m?
That second workout is pretty much what Coe and Daniels prescribe for 800/1500m runners. Keep doing the tempos, but my guess is you could probably go a bit faster on them, or at least faster for the last 30-40% of them. I would throw in some 2400m-3200m repeats around race pace, but really focus on "cruising" at that pace, not struggling with it. You should be able to recover pretty quickly between reps and after the workout, and recovery at that pace is the name of the game for 10K.
skip wrote:
Wise Guy wrote:No, but I've had the opposite happen, i.e. PRing in longer distances while training for shorter ones.
maybe I should try that approach, any chance you could post a snapshot of what your training looked like then
50-60 a week, something like
M: 5, very easy
T: 7, moderate pace
W: intervals (usually 2miles - 5k worth of work, so 12x400, 6x800, 15x200, hard but not balls to the wall, equal recovery, maybe divided into sets with a little more rest between sets) maybe 6 miles total (2 up, 1 down)
H: 5, very easy
F: 10, moderate pace
S: intervals, same as W, or 9-10 mile progression run
Su: 16 pretty quick
I'm more of a miler type anyway, and I PRed at 5k, so this really isn't that low for mile-5k type training. I certainly wouldn't make any radical changes to your training based on my experiences.
'strides once a week'
Why mention that?
ukathleticscoach wrote:
'strides once a week'
Why mention that?
Is this a trick question? Because it's part of his training?
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skip wrote:
Training for 10km:
workouts - 5 to 6 mile tempo runs, 6-8 x 1km @ slightly faster than 10km pace with 90 sec rest, hills, strides once a week, med-high mileage
anyone have this happen, explanation on why? concentrate on 800m?
Sorry, but what 10k runner goes out and runs an 800 race?I mean i'm sure it's happened, but it sounds a bit farfetched.
Also, when was your PR from. A lot of long distance runners have weak prs at random distances they never race.
Troll?? wrote:Sorry, but what 10k runner goes out and runs an 800 race?I mean i'm sure it's happened, but it sounds a bit farfetched.
Also, when was your PR from. A lot of long distance runners have weak prs at random distances they never race.
Yes! So many distance runners say things like " i can only run a 58 quater", but have like 4:10 mile speed. It's amazing how ignorant many distance runners are. And then they do things like you and set a pr at these distances and are then shocked. Who would have guessed it!
OK how do you know if you are a 800m runner or 10km runner?