How to run a sub 2:00 in the 800m

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Your sprint times (100m-400m) time are really slow for this. your training is also more geared towards 1500m - 3000m right now.

Continue your strength workouts and base phase. Do some harder short workouts, like Seb Coe's 6 x 266 in 800 pace, jog back to the starting line recovery. Or 200m repeats. But you really should only be doing that kind of thing late in the season when you're trying to really peak.

I think you'd be better served by not doing a hard workout every day. A standard schedule during the offseason is 1 long day, 1 tempo day, and 3-4 easy mileage days. In the season, you still need to keep 2-3 easy mileage days, while doing 2 or so hard track workouts and/or tempo runs and a race day. I don't think you'll get very far doing interval workouts, hill workouts, and tempos every day you run.

You run a 59 second first lap and then a 60 second 2nd lap, bam 1:59. I dont see what was so difficult about this

A few comments:

You can do 400s at 800 pace with 2 minutes rest? I gather that's at last year's 800 pace? That's an impossible workout if it's at current/goal pace for any runner.

It would serve you well to do 5x1000 instead of 4x1000 for some more volume, and with less rest (i.e. 3 minutes instead of 5) - unless you're blasting each 1000.

That is indeed a ton of quality each week. I more/less agree that they're almost all catered towards running a 1500/3k. You should put in some "real" speed to get your 200/400 times down, and by extent your 800 as well.

When I was a freshman in high school, my 800 pr was 2:29. My sophomore year prs were pretty similar to yours now. Then I started working harder and running in the summers and stuff and now in my senior year, my prs are:

400-:52

600-1:26

800-1:58

1000-2:37

1600-4:24

One big thing that helped me, though was that i transferred after sophomore year from a school with a pretty shitty program to a school with a really good program so I think that if the coaching is there as well as the drive and desire to improve, you can do it eventually. But maybe not soon.

You need to start running on pure hate

Thanks will consider. Is there a training plan that you would suggest, to run a sub 2:00. Anyone.

Do you not have a coach? Have you asked him about this?

Right now your sprint times indicate you simply don't have the speed to run sub 2:00. Work on your speed. But as others have already stated, it's a little early in the season for that right now.

Furthermore, you still have three seasons left. Have some patience. If breaking the school record is your goal, that's great. But don't count on breaking it this year. Just because you aren't a speedster right now doesn't mean you won't improve significantly your junior and senior year.

My sophomore year of high school I was a total scrub. Scored 2 or 3 points the whole outdoor season. My junior year I really started to develop and was MVP that year. My senior year I started breaking school records and became one of the top runners in the state.

I'm not saying your progression will be exactly like mine. I'm just saying: Have patience grasshopper.

I do have a coach but, he doesn't care about me, because I don't run that fast, and he doesn't really care about distance people eIther

So you have one coach for the whole team? No specific distance coach? That is unfortunate.

So what i am hearing is that i need to do more speed,like 200-400m repeats.

That 2:20 kid wrote:

Thanks will consider. Is there a training plan that you would suggest, to run a sub 2:00. Anyone.

Why are you looking for a new training plan? You already have one. Are you still improving?

dook wrote:

That 2:20 kid wrote:

Thanks will consider. Is there a training plan that you would suggest, to run a sub 2:00. Anyone.

Why are you looking for a new training plan? You already have one. Are you still improving?

His training plan is pretty awesome if you want to run well for 3 weeks and then burn out and start getting slower for the rest of the season.

Because i don't really know how to make one i just made it out of a bunch of workouts that i saw, and thought they would be good. So i made a training plan from them.

Do you guys know any workouts that could bring down my 100-400 times.

You run too much.

You need to do more core.

I already do it pretty much everyday.

That 2:20 kid wrote:

Because i don't really know how to make one i just made it out of a bunch of workouts that i saw, and thought they would be good. So i made a training plan from them.

You didn't answer my question. Why are you looking for a new training plan?WWhat's wrong with what you've been doing so far?

Well i haven't really made any progression. That is why.