5x800m + 6x10" hill sprints + 5x800m

Read Steve magness's book or brad husson and you'll see this type of workout. The 800s are probably 10k to threshold pace for her considering she is around a 15:00 performer in the summer. But both those books will explain hill sprints. Basically she is working two systems and recruiting those faster twitch fibers when tired. I have done tempo runs with hill sprints after with my high school athletes at the beginning of the season which switches to 200s over time.

so she is doing cruise 800s with hill sprints in the middle.

I am 99% sure Hudson never suggested hill sprints sandwiched between intervals. Maybe Magness. But seems unlikely, will have to check the books.

The standard practice is hill sprints after an easy day. Sometimes after tempo to get your pop back, much like strides.

99% wrong I even have sample logs from Hudson athletes. The one I can think of I have seen (don't have my computer on me) is 5x1000, hill sprints, 5x1000, hill sprints with wu/cd. This was a specific workout at 5k speed I believe for the 1000s.

Is that in the book though? I am not sure, and I think it isn't.

SomeBloke wrote:

so she is doing cruise 800s with hill sprints in the middle.

I am 99% sure Hudson never suggested hill sprints sandwiched between intervals. Maybe Magness. But seems unlikely, will have to check the books.

The standard practice is hill sprints after an easy day. Sometimes after tempo to get your pop back, much like strides.

I am reading Magness right now, and the purpose of the hill sprints (according to him) would be to recruit muscle fibers that were not used in the first set of 800s. Then those muscle fibers would presumably be recruited and trained aerobically in the second set of 800s.

You can argue the science, but that is the reason people do this workout.

The purpose is to get faster.

Reader of books, thanks for chasing this down. The idea is clear, just wasn't sure it was actually prescribed.

Citius5000 wrote:

99% wrong I even have sample logs from Hudson athletes. The one I can think of I have seen (don't have my computer on me) is 5x1000, hill sprints, 5x1000, hill sprints with wu/cd. This was a specific workout at 5k speed I believe for the 1000s.

The athlete was Ritz. I have the log i front of me.