hunta wrote:
To quote coach d speaking about this
"What Renato outlined in the old monster thread, and which we use in our program (D1) for 800 specialists, emphasizes Aerobic Power:
2 sessions per week of long intervals. Sessions like 6X1000 or 16-12-8-6-4 breakdowns
1 long run of ~60 minutes
The rest of the time is in the pool or recovery runs of 30-45 min, not necessarily at a slow pace.
Close to indoor racing start sprints of 100m or 200m
Krummenacker used almost exactly the same plan to win World Indoors gold over Kipketer, which is the last medal of any kind won my a US athlete at 800.
Renato specifically mentioned that the long run was important for maintining anaerobic threshold (i.e., lactate clearance), and that the Italians had better results with aerobic power training for 800 than with highly anaerobic training (lactate tolerance)."
The best 800m results comes from a program something in the middle of highly anaerobic and highly aerobic training when it comes to mileage.