Most Famous Workouts

good god. what was the rest?wow

spectator. wrote:

Danny Harris:

2x600 in 1:14,16 (saw it myself).

20 400's at 57 sounds brutal.i did 25 x 200m @ 27 with 30 seconds rest twice in college on our indoor track with a teammate. was used as an anaerobic measure for our coach to gauge our fitness. i was only a 1:52-3 800m runner too. it was very painful, but much easier than 400's with short restso, as a medicore runner, i don't think it belongs on the list

Other options wrote:

Mo has done 20 x 400 @ 57 @ altitude before. And either he or Galen did 20 x 200 @ 27 before but that's not as impressive.

I remember reading Jim Ryuns book and his coach stating he did 40 x 400m with 10 in 70, 10 in 65, 10 in 63 and 10 in 62. As a 16/17 year old that is just crazy.

How about Herb Elliott running 40 miles in well under 4 hours not that long (couple of months or so?) before his WR win in the Rome Olympic 1500?

No, I don't believe you as Lasse Viren did a similar workout before Munich and I believe his was only 20 X 200 in 27 with 30 seconds rest. So, even though he was blood doping I don't think you could do this workout.

K.B. did 6*2km Rest: 400 jog Pace: 5.00 -->4.55

(Sankt Moritz 2005)

Never Happened!

Before Atlanta, Bob Kennedy did 12x400 averaging 57.high overall with a minute rest

Shaheen in a lead up to his 2003 WC in Paris

Aiming for 3 times 2000m alternating speed every lap, 59" / 72" / 59" / 72" / 59" = 5'21" with 5 min recovery,

5'19" / 5'22"6 / 5'24" with 55"8 last lap but about 76" slow laps

The other day the Kenyan contingent for the Beijing WC knocked out a 25km fartlek at Wilson Kipsangs resort in Iten. Would have loved to observe that.

http://www.wilson-kipsang.com/news/nice-training-this-morning-7083

Beleke wrote:

K.B. did 6*2km Rest: 400 jog Pace: 5.00 -->4.55

(Sankt Moritz 2005)

Source? Never heard of this one before. Seems too good to be true. 12,000m at 3k pace at altitude with fairly short rest?

How about the guy who just completed 50 ironman's in 50 days in 50 different states - that seems like a decent workout

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=35706751&nid=294&title=utah-county-iron-cowboy-finishes-50-days-of-racing-in-50-states

mark b wrote:

How about Herb Elliott running 40 miles in well under 4 hours not that long (couple of months or so?) before his WR win in the Rome Olympic 1500?

How about Tom Byers jumping onto a track one night and running a sub 4 mile because his father had never seen him run one?

I have run all these times in workouts, just not as many. If I do more maybe all the hard work will pay off and I'll be as fast as them.

Saw it with my own eyes! Can't remember exact times but remember first one being slightly above 5.00 and last one was 4.55! 2 Pacers ...alternating every 400m!

i assure you i did that workout, with a teammate, twice. i was 20 years oldkeep in mind i was a 400m/800m based runner running 60-70 mile weeks. i ran 49.1 open/1:54 in high school so this wasn't that challenging from a speed perspective. lactic acid, that was the challenge.hell, we'd do 8 x 200m at 25-26 some days in high school after easy runs and then lift legs/cleans after practice. (i just looked it up in my log)i ran 23 flat in a 200m in H.S. the same year i ran a 4:27....so i was more fast than endurance basedmaybe it's a difficult wkt for you, but 5 x mile at 5:05 pace or 6 mile tempos at 5:15 in college was WAY more difficult for me than 25 x 200 at 27

Caller of BS wrote:

No, I don't believe you as Lasse Viren did a similar workout before Munich and I believe his was only 20 X 200 in 27 with 30 seconds rest. So, even though he was blood doping I don't think you could do this workout.

you're lucky wrote:

good god. what was the rest?

wow

spectator. wrote:

Danny Harris:

2x600 in 1:14,16 (saw it myself).

This was many years ago, so I don´t remember exactly, but I think it was something like 10 minutes.

beleke wrote:

Saw it with my own eyes! Can't remember exact times but remember first one being slightly above 5.00 and last one was 4.55! 2 Pacers ...alternating every 400m!

If he really did that then Bekele was a workout warrior who underperformed in races...which I strooooongly doubt.

Are these Sonia O' Sullivan workouts famous?

Read the bottom of the blog for some tough ones.

http://irelandrunning.blogspot.com/2012/09/australian-media-interview-with-sonia.html

no, sorry wrote:

i did 25 x 200m @ 27 with 30 seconds rest twice in college on our indoor track with a teammate. was used as an anaerobic measure for our coach to gauge our fitness. i was only a 1:52-3 800m runner too. it was very painful, but much easier than 400's with short rest

Complete BS. Bill Dellinger figured if you could run 16 30/30s you were ready for 4:00.