So I conducted a little running experiment for 2 months...

put it down on me wrote:

I sprinted all out as fast as I could 5 times (rest was 1.5 minutes) 3 times a week,

HOW FAR???

30 meters? 100 meters? 400 meters?

there are many variables missing. what kind of training took you to a 5:02?

you said you sprinted "all out as fast as you could 5 times" and gave us the rest. how far did you sprint "all out as fast as you could?"

if you were doing something like 5x300 3x week and getting in 55mpw, a 4:34 seems perfectly reasonable depending your age, previous training, and ability.

regardless, congratulations, that's a big improvement.

if you sprinted balls out three days a week, you must've been putting in a ton of "really easy" miles on those other 4 days. -10

[quote]derp wrote:

there are many variables missing. what kind of training took you to a 5:02?

you said you sprinted "all out as fast as you could 5 times" and gave us the rest. how far did you sprint "all out as fast as you could?"

if you were doing something like 5x300 3x week and getting in 55mpw, a 4:34 seems perfectly reasonable depending your age, previous training, and ability.

regardless, congratulations, that's a big improvement.

Well, that's the thing, the distance varied from day to day. Other days I would sprint for around 400m or 500m, other days I would sprint for 300, and obviously after the first set, I would go down in distance to maybe a 200 or 250 or 300. The point was just to sprint as fast as I could until I dropped.