Do you train on a track - or have access to a local one? What’s your favourite, and most despised distance? As always come and share your weekend’s triumphs and woes below the line, whether it was Paris or Brighton marathon or a jog across the park
After my Saturday club track session, I was talking on twitter about my least favourite distances. Not for racing (I’ve not yet done a race shorter than 5k, unless you count Junior parkrun!) but for training. We’d done the “Yasso 800s” at the club session. The idea behind this workout is that you can use it to predict your marathon time. If you average, say, 2m 50sec for your 10 x 800, you are in 2h 50m marathon shape. Average 3m 45sec, then 3h 45min marathon shape. You get the picture.
Actually, the maths is pretty much nothing more than a coincidence - clearly a good 800m runner would be able to average a really good clip for 10 of them, but might struggle to convert that to a decent 5k, let alone a marathon. And I somehow doubt David Rudisha - utterly amazing though he is - is going to be the first sub-two hour marathoner.
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