A few days ago (Oct 20th to be exact), I logged onto twitter to see a great chat topic going on. THEE Bart Yasso was starting to take questions and talk about anything related to running.
I wasn't able to take part, but I checked back after the event was over, and I learned a few good tips! Here's a number of things from
Bart Yasso's twitter page:
Next he was on to a topic that I've wrestled with myself:
Over the last 2 years, I've really come to believe his next 2 points on this thread:(I've only completed one marathon [as part of an Ironman], but I'm thinking about these tips in terms of any longer-distance race. These ideas have worked for me in 10 mile races and half-marathons.)
Someone asked how FAR the "race pace runs" should be. Here's Bart's response:
Next he went on to talk about something I HATE: 800s on the track. Specifically, HIS 800s workout: "Yasso 800s."
"...in your goal time" meaning if you're shooting for a 4-hour marathon,
you do 4-minute 800s.
He even mentioned a half-marathon version of the Yasso 800s. In this case, he has people run 400s:
That sounds like a horrible workout, but something I WILL try sometime.
Before going on to the next topic, he had 2 funny tweets regarding Yasso 800s:
Ha! Love that! :)
It's the end of the summer running season (... OK, it's been ended for some time now...), and Bart had a question about how to handle these upcoming months:
Good to hear, because (1) I think so too and (2) I know
I'll be doing a lot of cross-training this winter
Sure, I'm injured a lot, but I TOTALLY agree with this
So I hope you can use some of these tips from Bart Yasso. And
follow him on twitter to be updated on future #BartChat topics! Thanks Bart!
Happy training, everyone!
p.s. If you missed my weekend post on my training / racing goals for the winter, scroll down or
click here.
3 comments:
Great post. Love getting all this good info. Thanks
Nice Tips! Being a fitness freak myself, sure I can use these tips somewhere.
Yasso is always worth listening to. I agree with pretty much all that is being said.
Don't think that Yasso 800s are the best workout; it is my experience that people may be able to do the workout but then discover that their marathon time is 10-15 minutes slower than the expected time.
For marathon training it is probably better to do somewhat longer repeats, e.g. 1200m - 1 mile.
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