College Women's 800m training

What have you done up to this point?

I'm also curious about how 800 people train these days (men or women)

I'll post some of my sample workouts from 15 years ago, but I have to go look for them first.

First, please answer some questions.

How old are you? 40 or 50 in inbetween

When is the last time you raced?

What was your time?

What is your PR from way back when?

What have you been doing lately?

What part of the region do you live in?

No drugs wrote:

First, please answer some questions.

How old are you? 40 or 50 in inbetween

When is the last time you raced?

What was your time?

What is your PR from way back when?

What have you been doing lately?

What part of the region do you live in?

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I'm 52. I raced last 5 years ago and ran 2:20 off of little training.

In college, 2:01 in training when my primary event was 5000m [14:50 best].

I did A Summer of Malmo, building up to 12 runs a week. Presently, Mon-Fri in the morning 40 minutes easy; Mon, Tues, Thurs afternoons 40 minutes at a faster pace; Wed 20 min tempo; Fri 4 x 4 minutes with 2 minutes rest; Sat light jog; Sunday 6 X 45 sec race pace.

I live in the North-East so there is snow from Dec-March, but I can get to an indoor track 1-2x's a week.

14:50? I'm calling BS on that...considering the AR is 14:44

huh? wrote:

14:50? I'm calling BS on that...considering the AR is 14:44

Way to really read and understand his post! Mommy and Daddy should have invested in private school for you.

Does anyone remember which web-site used to have the training log of one of Michigan's women 800 runners? Was it run-insight? Is that log still out there anywhere? Because it sounds like exactly what this guy (yes, "huh?," the OP is a guy) is looking for. I remember looking at that log and really thinking it made a lot of sense.

I'm going to say that this is a masters MAN

Are you able to recover at your age doing 12 runs a week? If so, that's fantasic. If not, just run once a day.

Do you run off of speed or strength?

Good Luck

His PR was from his college days. Not today. Jesus people can't READ and COMPREHEND anymore.

Maybe he should have written -- "I'm a male master 800m runner...."

From the post the person did not say whether he was a man or a women.

It can get confusing.

If you were a woman master's runner hoping to break 2:10, you probably would've ran in college if you were an American and thus wouldn't need to know how women college 800m runners train. Think about it.

Sorry for the confusion. I am a male masters runner.

My training has been going well and my recovery is good for two reasons: I drink a protein shake [25grams high quality whey] right after every run [the same one that Al Sal's group uses in Oregon] and I also run on trails, grass, and gravel roads.

What I'm looking for is a high quality training regime suitable for my fitness level. I thought that a college woman's 800m program would be suitable because of the comprehensive nature of the training at that level.

Again, sorry for the confusion, but I would appreciate examples, especially from the more endurance 1500m side rather than the 400m sprint side.

To be fair, he asked about women's training. I thought it was a woman too for a while.

A once and future runner wrote:

I'm a master's 800m runner hoping to run in the 2:10 range indoors this winter. Can anyone provide me the 800m training that high level college women would be doing in the last 4 months before a major competition?

Don't have anything specific--used to do coach some women myself, but mostly not of that caliber.

Dunno if he's published anything, but Lou Duesing (Cornell) has certainly had a lot of success in getting women in your time range to drop several seconds...

Otherwise, you might want to use Jack Daniel's stuff. I'm told that some females have used his 800m schedules with real success.

im dumb wrote:

If you were a woman master's runner hoping to break 2:10, you probably would've ran in college if you were an American and thus wouldn't need to know how women college 800m runners train. Think about it.

To clarify, this rant was aimed at the people who were thinking the OP was a woman.