abnormally bad races

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  • Weirdness

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    10 years ago 01/26/2014 11:56pm EST

    In Cross country season, we had 3 x 1 mile workouts with 1:30 minutes rest (300m jog) every other week / every 2 weeks.

    These are the range of times I ran for each mile-->

    1st mile: 5:45 to 6:00

    2nd mile: 5:49 to 6:04

    3rd mile: 5:38 - 5:58

    Both my coaches said I should be able to run 19:30 min for the 5k at the least. And for all my races I couldn't break 21 minutes....I noticed I was able to do the 1st mile in 6:00-6:10 but after that, my legs just died.

    I don't know what the problem is, and I'm asking this because I'm afraid this sort of "good workouts, bad races" condition will hit me again during track season.

  • SMJO

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    10 years ago 01/27/2014 12:21am EST
    re: Weirdness

    It's because you are training your body to do miles with rests which is not a competitive event.

    You need tempo and more tempo and then harder tempo until you realize that races are not about doing reps.

    Then you can work on breaking things up to get faster.

  • not a cheap bastard

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    Member since 05/09/2013.

    6,290 posts. Last post 1 month ago.
    10 years ago 01/27/2014 2:29am EST
    re: Weirdness

    thats not abnormally bad racing, thats poor fitness.

    do more longer easy runs, longer hard runs, etc.

    the mile repeats aren't gonna help your endurance all that much at this point.

    you could probably be running sub-19 in a couple months if you just increase your weekly mileage and get in some 45+ minute runs at least 5x/week.

  • Hardloper

    Member since 08/20/2013.

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    10 years ago 01/27/2014 3:45am EST
    re: Weirdness

    Wow, I don't even think I would do that at 5k pace let alone almost 1 minute per mile faster than 5k pace. I think good workouts + bad races = classic sign of overtraining/under-recovering.

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