1500m Season Opener Prediction for Sunday

ExDitanceGuy wrote:

1500m season opener on Sunday. Male 25, 30-40 mpw. Old 1500m of 4:20 of just 5k training last year.

Recent workouts from past few weeks:

-5k tempo 16:56 (3’), 8 x 30s hills (3’) 5k tempo 16:58 (hard monster session)

-10 miles @ 6:30 pace (very comfortable)

-3k indoor race 9:06 (feel I under performed)

-20 min tempo @ 5:30 pace

-3(800-200-200) (3’, 5’) in: 2:15.2, 31.7, 27.8; 2:13.2, 32.9, 28.9; 2:15.7, 32.3, 28.7

-4 mile treadmill tempo @ 5:30 pace

-5 x 300m (3’) in 42.2, 43.6, 44.5, 44.9, 46.4

-1000-800-600-400-200 in 2:50, 2:13, 1:37, 63 and 31 (fairly easy)

-8x400m (90s) in 65.6 66.0, 64.5, 66.0, 65.9, 67.2, 66.7, 67.0 (lowkey hard)

Cheers

PR for sure. 4:10 and not long till you hit 4:00

4:15

You are in good shape. 4:10 or better. I'll go with 4:08

I'm going with 4:20-4:25. I won't say why to avoid making you overthink... That should be a good result for the first 1500 of the season in January.

4:10, but good luck on doing better!!!

ExDitanceGuy wrote:

1500m season opener on Sunday. Male 25, 30-40 mpw. Old 1500m of 4:20 of just 5k training last year.

Recent workouts from past few weeks:

-5k tempo 16:56 (3’), 8 x 30s hills (3’) 5k tempo 16:58 (hard monster session)

-10 miles @ 6:30 pace (very comfortable)

-3k indoor race 9:06 (feel I under performed)

-20 min tempo @ 5:30 pace

-3(800-200-200) (3’, 5’) in: 2:15.2, 31.7, 27.8; 2:13.2, 32.9, 28.9; 2:15.7, 32.3, 28.7

-4 mile treadmill tempo @ 5:30 pace

-5 x 300m (3’) in 42.2, 43.6, 44.5, 44.9, 46.4

-1000-800-600-400-200 in 2:50, 2:13, 1:37, 63 and 31 (fairly easy)

-8x400m (90s) in 65.6 66.0, 64.5, 66.0, 65.9, 67.2, 66.7, 67.0 (lowkey hard)

Cheers

Great effort at working out. A+ for effort. Keep pushing yourself.

Make sure to eat your 3 to 4 cloves of raw garlic and allow it to burn your mouth for a full 2 mins before racing your 1500. Gets you extra fired up.

Great job.

So I wanted to update this thread and might start regularly post my training and race results here (inspired by EddyLee). Goal is 3:59 by the end of summer.

18th Jan - 30 mins v slow @ 7:50 + 4 strides

19th Jan - 1500m 4:12

19th Jan - post race 4m tempo @5:30

20th Jan - 25 mins treadmill @ 6:51

21st Jan - 25 mins @ 6:44

22nd Jan - 1500m 4:13

23rd Jan - rest

24th Jan - 28 min treadmill tempo @ 5:29

25th Jan - 20 mins @ ~6:30 + 4 strides

26th Jan - 1500m 4:09

26th Jan - post race SLR 67 mins @ 6:35

First race was OK - improvement, but felt sluggish after jogging so slowly. Not going to do that again. Second race was disappointing and I slowed way to much 400-800. Third race was better, but I can go faster. Excited to keep improving.

I have three races this week - a mile on Wednesday night; a 5k on Friday and my first ever 800m on Sunday.