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800m - The best approach?

  • 17-02-2011 3:46pm
    #1
    ecoli
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    For me it seems that 800m is one of the hardest events to training for, mainly because there are so many ways to attack it… Low mileage/High qual Coe, Cruz (100km per week) or High mileage/Low qual Snell, Ovett (150-160km per week). One may point out that Coe and Cruz ran 1:41.7 and the other two didn’t, so you can make your own mind up about that.

    Ovett was interesting as he had great speed as a junior (47.5 at 17) and then went on to run a great half marathon 64min odd (could have been 65) three weeks before breaking the mile wr ( 3:48.8 )…but his 800’s really dropped off once he started increasing his mileage. He ran his pb in 1978 (1:44) and then never really got close to that again for the rest of his career (having said that he did win an Olympic gold 1980). If he had not had of increased his mileage, would his 800 continued to have improve along the same line as Coe’s did?

    If we look even to recent times the two top 800m runners at the moment (Rudisha and Kaki) appear top be more 400/800m guys rather than 800m/1500m runners

    From this evidence it would appear that training would be more power based (by power I am refering to sprinters raw speed rather than endurance). If this is the case how come we see in this country the majority of our 800ms coming from a more aerobic base background

    Take our top 800m runners at the moment; Chamney, Campbell, McCarthy, Warne, Leighio, Tuohy, McBrearty, English and Patterson, we see that the majority of these runners come from a more aerobic background

    Given our great pool of talent in the 400m at the moment should we been trying to funnel some of these into the longer distance?

    Would be interested to get the views of some of the sprinters on boards (as well as everyone else of course:D) regarding the advantages or disadvantages of coming from either background


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  • #2
    Reaganomical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭Reaganomical


    Best approach? Clone this man.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_of87fPA6fg&feature=related


  • #3
    RandyMann
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    In relation to Chamney, its a tall ask for him to run 3:35 to qualify for the World Championships, unfair too. I wonder will he go back to 800m.


  • #4
    myflipflops
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    Chamney was a 400/800 runner growing up. The same with Ciaran O Connell (most talented 800 guy we have had in the alst 10 years). I think Ciaran did the 400/800 double at Irish schools.

    Chamney won the 800 at Irish schools amd he was knocking out quick 800 times but would probably not have run sub 4.00 for 1500 at the time. It's only in the last few years that he stepped up to the longer distances and that's because he probably tapped his potential at 800.


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