I am a high school cross country runner. The coach at my school has all the runners, one of whom has broken 16 minutes and several who have never broken 25, do the same workouts almost every practice. Also, She incorporates strange amounts of rest between intervals(3x500m with 15 mins of rest) Is this advisable?
3x500 with 15 mins would be a decent workout for the end of a season 800m runner if the 500s were done nearly all out. I see little relevance to CC.
MadRunner wrote:
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Well there's your problem.
I had a similar coach when I was in high school. She made us do 30m sprints sometimes as our entire session and seldom did hill workouts. Nice lady but didn't have a clue about how to train strong runners.