This Winter season I went 4:52 in a winter track meet in mid February. Is it possible to cut off another 12 seconds by the end of May. My 800 time is 2:11 and I ran that twice once without spikes.
This Winter season I went 4:52 in a winter track meet in mid February. Is it possible to cut off another 12 seconds by the end of May. My 800 time is 2:11 and I ran that twice once without spikes.
Nobody knows, depends on you.
Without knowing other details yes that is possible.
Yeah fam. Easy drop with time and consistently. If you want to break 4:40, you need to do a decent amount of mileage but not a ton. Probably for the average guy with talent, maybe 30-40 mpw. I broke 4:40 with 33-36 ish. Just grind speed.
3-6 mile tempos. (Longer being a little slower and the 3s a little faster)
8 x 200 helped me at 800 rp. It developed my leg speed for sure.
and a solid long run you it'll be in your eye in no time.
DreamsOfHisOwn wrote:
Yeah fam. Easy drop with time and consistently. If you want to break 4:40, you need to do a decent amount of mileage but not a ton. Probably for the average guy with talent, maybe 30-40 mpw. I broke 4:40 with 33-36 ish. Just grind speed.
3-6 mile tempos. (Longer being a little slower and the 3s a little faster)
8 x 200 helped me at 800 rp. It developed my leg speed for sure.
and a solid long run you it'll be in your eye in no time.
Ight thanks guys I’ll keep working at it I’m definitely getting fitter and I feel better then ever I’ve been doing about 30 miles per week and recently started doing tempo runs. How fast did you do your tempos I do mine in like 6- to 6.15 is this too slow
I'd probably get the "true tempo" down to the 5:55 - 6:00 range but don't just go down to the pace because there's no benefit in that. Good luck!
bigbossmanthe1@gmail.comwrote:
This Winter season I went 4:52 in a winter track meet in mid February. Is it possible to cut off another 12 seconds by the end of May. My 800 time is 2:11 and I ran that twice once without spikes.
Sure it is, it's a bit of a jump but certainly possible.
To compare, my junior year of high school, age 16 I ran 4:52 for 1600m at the simplot games.
Ran 4:24.15 for 1500m outdoors. What's that, maybe 4:45 for 1 mile.
Thing was, that season I had perhaps an undiagnosed case of mono. In between the two races I had a 10 mile road race. 60:56 and took a lot out of me. Might have had a better outdoor season if I hadn't done that race. was very low energy for at least 6 weeks after that race.
800 was 2:07.14 indoors that year, didn't get faster outdoors.
Greg wrote:
bigbossmanthe1@gmail.comwrote:
This Winter season I went 4:52 in a winter track meet in mid February. Is it possible to cut off another 12 seconds by the end of May. My 800 time is 2:11 and I ran that twice once without spikes.
Sure it is, it's a bit of a jump but certainly possible.
To compare, my junior year of high school, age 16 I ran 4:52 for 1600m at the simplot games.
Ran 4:24.15 for 1500m outdoors. What's that, maybe 4:45 for 1 mile.
Thing was, that season I had perhaps an undiagnosed case of mono. In between the two races I had a 10 mile road race. 60:56 and took a lot out of me. Might have had a better outdoor season if I hadn't done that race. was very low energy for at least 6 weeks after that race.
Thats a really impressive ten miler. Ill be sure to update this thread as I improve.
800 was 2:07.14 indoors that year, didn't get faster outdoors.
My bad did not mean to quote post like that anyways I will continue to update this thread as I improve.