Strange workouts?

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10 years ago 10/27/2013 5:05pm EDT

Hey running faithful! I was just wondering what was the strangest workout you have ever done and why? And if all your workouts have been old fashioned Jack Daniels or Bowerman-esque, what are the strangest tales youve heard? My good friend told me that a coach used to have his athletes run up a sand dune in armor... I don't know what the reps were.

The weirdest one I have done personally was probably 2x30meters, 3x40meters and 2x50meters (being a distance runner) at about 80 percent.

The most interesting one I have completed was 4x200 at 24-26 with 50 meter jog in between. That one almost makes you want to not stop for recovery!

10 years ago 10/27/2013 5:15pm EDT

re: San Vicente

I don't know if this is a strange workout but i had never done it before this summer.

We started with an easy jog for around 1 minute. Then we did a hard stride (90%) for around 50-60 meters. After that stride we did another 30sec-1minute easy jog. Then we got to a hill that we would sprint up. After the hill there was around 200m of flat land that went uphill then a bit downhill at the end, and we would tempo that portion after sprinting up the hill. Then we would have completed 1 loop. At the end of each loop we would do a form of strength training (dips,sit-ups,pushups,planks, or jumping stuff) we would do this for 25-30 minutes. it was pretty hard.

10 years ago 10/27/2013 5:31pm EDT

re: San Vicente

Not really a "strange" workout, but an entertaining one we did in high school a couple times on easy days. We would line up and run around the track single file, tossing a tennis ball over our head to the person behind us. When one of the tennis balls got to the back, the person would run to the front of the line. Person in the front dictated the pace.

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