What is the HARDEST workout you ever did?!

My apologies, you would beat her in the 800 very easily.

When I ran in college, I also did "The Michigan" a few times. It was similar to what you described, but the "rest" was further and the track times were slower.

1.5mi 8:30 (5:40 pace, off the track)

1600m 4:50

1.5mi 8:30

1200m 3:32

1.5mi 8:30

800m 2:10

1.5mi 8:30

400m ~1:00

Michigan is for pussies

Yeah i mean i never claimed to be great at running. Besides the kid i was refering too, the one i called a pussy, is my roommate and its just a joke. The kid beats me constantly in cross country and anything over a 3,000 on the track, it's just funny that he's not so great of a steepler thats all.

I'm glad ur girlfriend is a good runner. Heck if she can almost run 4:08 she's amazing. Whats her name?

In my opinion, someone who isn't naturally gifted at running and runs as hard as he/she can with an average time is less of a pussy compared to someone who's extremely naturally gifted and doesn't run to their fullest ability can be called a pussy...even if the talented person is tons faster than the slow person.

You've posted four times to this thread (3 too many). 1000 repeats, we got it. You don't have to defend yourself to some anonymous poster.

My favorite workouts are 6 to 8 X 1000 (in around 2:55 with 2 minute rest)

I have a problem/fear with any interval over 1000 meters.

My hardest workout is 2 X 1000 (2:55 - 2:57, 1min rest), then 5 X 800 (2min rest, 2:05 and progressively faster)

An 8 mile road run. 1st mile 6:15, 2nd 5:06,3rd 6:00, 4th 5:09, 5th 6:00, 6th 5:02, 7th 5:49, 8th 4:55.

90x200? interesting...

ONeill wrote:

Had to be in college thousands of years ago. It was arare morning track workout like @ 6:00am. My coach told us to do 200 on minute segments till he got back. He came back 90 minutes later. had us do a mile however we felt then strides and cooldown.

3 x mile 400 jog 400 400 jog

5:09 - 67

5:09 - 64

5:09 - 58

That was tough...

Also:

Mile - 5:02

3 M - 16:38

Mile - 5:04

My PR for 5 was only 26:40 at the time. I left a lot of races on the track...

I have just one thing to say on such crazyness:

You should win races not a workouts.

In high school, I used to run hill sprints until I puked. Then I would run one more as hard as I could.

That was hard, but I don't know what it accomplished.

in high school, the second year in a row we won the PCL:

4 x 1 mile, with 4 minute jog between

4:54

4:55

4:58

4:50

there was a hill on the start of the course.

another horrible workout was the 4-2 workout:

400 - 58 jog a 400

200 - 27/28 jog a 200

200 - 27/28 " "

200 - 27/28 " "

200 - 27/28 " "

400 - 58 jog a 400

300 - 43

that one sucked.

tom

My arm got stuck under a boulder and I had to chop it off with my pocket knife.

10:00am: 12 mile run with 10x200m hill sprints

4:00pm: 5k race

8x400m (3 min) in flats on a cinder track in 57/58 with the last in 56 - led every one in a big group of good runners. Probably the best workout I've done, but that last 50m when someone moved onto my shoulder kinda turned into a race and I could almost feel every muscle from my quads to my abs tearing. Just one of those great days as a runner.

With all due respect I have to call major bullshit on that one.. you ran 90 200 on the minute ....impossible...Maybe the workout has grown over time

No, if you read that post again you'll see that he had a minutes rest between reps, so if he did 90 reps, that leaves no time for any running.

Assuming 30s per rep, 'cos the maths is easy, that's only 60 x 200. An easy session. :-)

4 x 300m @ :36 w/ 5 min rest. Could not sand up for 30 mins aferwards.

3x400m with 8 min. rest in 55.6, 55.3, 54.6

I ran 1:57 for 800m's a week later.

Also did 12 x 400 starting at 61 and working down to 56 with 1 min recovery. That was a different kind of hurt.

Half of these workouts are complete bullshit.

12 x 400m at 61"-56" on 60" rest should easily put you at 3'42-44, but you're at 3'57? Yeah, right.