After two months of doing workouts in the road due to a snow covered track, it's finally starting to warm up in sync with the end of indoor. This is getting me excited for our first outdoor race in three weeks. With these indoor times, what would be a good prediction for my early season?
400: 56.04 (the only one I ran was the first meet of the season)
800: 2:02.8 (as a double after the 1200 pr)
1200: 3:13.x
All of these were run on unbanked tracks.
Thanks
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You're limited by your 400 time right now.
Yeah, I'll probably use the open Saturday practices for speed workouts instead of long runs. That's definitely what I need to focus on most.
Karma Police wrote:
You're limited by your 400 time right now.
Do 200 training. That has elements of both 100 and 400 work. The 800 specific sessions will give you good speed endurance. Coupe this with 200 speed, and you should be able to run a good 400 without specifically training for it. It can be too many sessions to fit in a week. (sprint training, 400 training, 800 training, threshold work, strength etc)
Thanks for the advice. Until the more hectic mid-season, I'm planning on doing something along the lines of Monday: tempo/strength, thursday: 800/1600 specific training, saturday: speed, and normal runs the rest of the time. I won't have much influence over individual workouts, but I'll see if my coach would be open to something like what you suggested on saturdays.