Taoufik Makhloufi workout
1:44.5
1:04.7
52.6
39.2
(2 weeks before 2:13.09 at 1000m)
That's crazy FAST
Nothing to add wrote:
That's crazy FAST
all at about 52 second pace, so they were targeting a possible 1k world record>1:44.5+26.25=2:10.75. He ran 2:13.09 and I thought at the time he could have handled a faster and more even pace from the pacesetter (his splits may have been all over the map with the pacesetter and then he may have sped up the last 200m). Maybe he will target that wr next year.
Good points jjjj!
Where is that track? Germany? Where is his euro season base?
you'd probably need a good few days rest after a 1'44.5-solo let alone carry on repping !!!
i dread to think what that indicates for a fully rested 800 if he just spent a season running 800 off same training !!!
If he's soloing 1:44 in practice does that show 800 WR potential? A True 800/1500 runner like Coe?
ventolin^3 wrote:
you'd probably need a good few days rest after a 1'44.5-solo let alone carry on repping !!!
i dread to think what that indicates for a fully rested 800 if he just spent a season running 800 off same training !!!
Legit Workout wrote:If he's soloing 1:44 in practice does that show 800 WR potential?
A True 800/1500 runner like Coe?
Nice workout!
Makhloufi looks great.
Thanks for the video.
That guy has incredible recovery
Legit Workout wrote:
If he's soloing 1:44 in practice does that show 800 WR potential? A True 800/1500 runner like Coe?
ventolin^3 wrote:
you'd probably need a good few days rest after a 1'44.5-solo let alone carry on repping !!!
i dread to think what that indicates for a fully rested 800 if he just spent a season running 800 off same training !!!
ijenns318 wrote:Idk about that...I mean just cause it was in practice, doesn't mean he wasn't going close to all out
He's run a full second faster in a race before too
I would run those times too if I had that music playing at the track.
It wasn't solo. He was paced by a guy on a bike. Also, it was probably with a running start, a big advantage.
Four or five days of light jogging to "rest" results in an 800m runner gaining weight, losing speed and feeling sluggish.
Damn. and he only got 4th...
800m man wrote:It wasn't solo. He was paced by a guy on a bike
Also, it was probably with a running start, a big advantage
Four or five days of light jogging to "rest" results in an 800m runner gaining weight, losing speed and feeling sluggish
So you read a one off quote from a 1500m runner and use that as your factual basis of all knowing knowledge about peaking for 800m races?
I'm going with actual proof that the BEST EVER 800m run and current world record was done after several rounds of racing.
No world class 800m coach would ever recommend four or five days of light jogging before an important 800m race.
Actual factz wrote:So you read a one off quote from a 1500m runner and use that as your factual basis of all knowing knowledge about peaking for 800m races?
I'm going with actual proof that the BEST EVER 800m run and current world record was done after several rounds of racing
No world class 800m coach would ever recommend four or five days of light jogging before an important 800m race
No, he's absolutely right in this case, because you aren't running absolutely all out when you know you have three more intervals at the same pace ahead, and it's just a workout. He did have a bike pacer, though--uncertain about the wind help there.
However, in calling Nick Willis's 3:29.66 the fastest ever white boy time (congrats to him on beating Cram, Coe, and the rest, of course), he is overlooking one native Spaniard, Fermin Cacho, low 3:29, as well as all of those of North African origin, El Guerrouj, Morceli, Taoufik, Iguider, the drug cheat Ramzi (whose low 3:29 in 1986 wasn't stricken from the books), and maybe one or two other guys, all of whom by American definitions would count as white (e.g. persons whose ancestry is from Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and so on).