Sunday 7 January 2007

800m training

Posted by speedygeoff on Sunday, January 07, 2007 with
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Saturday's training (with the addition of a long warmup and cooldown) consisted of a set of 10 x 100m on grass, jogging back, on 80 seconds, with Colin, Amanda, and Ken. And Sunday's run was a good but very slow 18km run, along the horse trails west of Belconnen; cool and windy conditions following light rain made the run quite pleasant.

For information here is a program I gave Maria to help sharpen her up while she is away on holiday, so she can run a good 800m race on return. As background, Maria has been doing plenty of longer distance running and doesn't want to lose distance fitness, and will benefit by including some sprint training.

Fri 5 Jan 4 x 2mins relaxed striding out, on 6mins
Sat 6 Jan 10 x 100m sprints with 100m recovery
Sun 7 Jan up to an hour of easy running

Mon 8 Jan 3 x 200m fast, up to 10 mins between each
Tue 9 Jan 45 mins easy
Wed 10 Jan 3 x 200m easy striding out
Thu 11 Jan 3000m tempo run
Fri 12 Jan 4 x 2mins relaxed striding out, on 6mins
Sat 13 Jan 16 x 50m sprints with 50m recovery
Sun 14 Jan up to an hour of easy running

Mon 15 Jan 800m time trial
Tue 16 Jan 45 mins easy
Wed 17 Jan 4 x 200m easy striding out
Thu 18 Jan 3000m tempo run
Fri 19 Jan 4 x 2mins relaxed striding out, on 6mins
Sat 20 Jan 12 x 50m sprints with 50m recovery
Sun 21 Jan up to 45 mins of easy running

Mon 22 Jan 800 time trial
Tue 23 Jan 30 mins easy
Wed 24 Jan jog or rest
Thu 25 Jan
** 800**

On Saturdays our sessions will be similar to hers.

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