Anyone relate? My strength are running fast for a short period or running long almost fast. Should I work on my 1500 or work where I already show talent? I'm thinking I work on 10000 with a finishers kick. Ideas?
Anyone relate? My strength are running fast for a short period or running long almost fast. Should I work on my 1500 or work where I already show talent? I'm thinking I work on 10000 with a finishers kick. Ideas?
What are your "great" PRs across the board?
I'm guessing you're okay at the mile, slightly more okay at the 10k, and don't know how to properly time a sprint event but think you do.
10k with a finisher's kick won't do you any good if you're only "okay..."
100m :11:32
200m :33:04
1600m 5:36
5000 17:09
10000 35:28
I have problems wrote:
100m :11:32
200m :33:04
1600m 5:36
5000 17:09
10000 35:28
Is this a joke? Given your 100m, your 200m should be about 8-9 seconds faster
You have good natural speed and good acquired endurance but not enough speed endurance which takes a lot of practice.I used to be the same way until recently. I often finished longer races with a big kick and in a 100 or 200 could get up to really good top speed but had trouble maintaining it over any distance. 400m and 800m were particularly hard for me.
Old PRs (1 year ago)
100m: 12.1
200m: 25.2
400m: 56.7
800: 2:12
1500m: 4:43
3k: 10:03
5k: 16:44
10k: 35:23
1/2: 1:18:34
Current PRs:
100m: 12.1
200m: 24.1
400m: 53.2
800m: 2:02
1500m: 4:17
3k: 9:43
5k: 16:24
10k: 35:12
1/2: 1:17:58
I increased mileage which resulted in some improvement across the board but most of the improvement in the 400-5k came from doing more race pace work and intervals and getting better at racing mentally. Develop your speed endurance and you should be able to be really successful in middistance if you have good speed and endurance already.
Also I'm assuming that 33 200m is supposed to be a 23. You have a bit more speed than I do and bit less endurance than I did a year ago. I would really focus in on the 400m and 800m more so than the 1500m with that kind of 100m speed.
jamin wrote:
I have problems wrote:100m :11:32
200m :33:04
1600m 5:36
5000 17:09
10000 35:28
Is this a joke? Given your 100m, your 200m should be about 8-9 seconds faster
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, :23:04
I have problems wrote:
100m :11:32
200m :33:04
1600m 5:36
5000 17:09
10000 35:28
According to this, your 1600 PR is 5:36, which is slower than your 5000 PR at 5:29/1600 pace, and only slightly faster than your 10000 PR at 5:40/1600 pace. So.........
What are you doing in the 1600? Sprinting the first lap and jogging the rest, or just not running with very much effort? Were these PRs from the same season?