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okay some of you may be not want to talk about it. but im curious as to what some of the other universities are running for workouts right now. We pretty much do nothing but between 5-9 200s with a few 100s scattered on a day or 2. and boy am i feeling burned out already. this is 5 weeks of 200s. just looking for comparison sake.

You're burned out, my coach has our team run two minute runs! The guys have to make 650 meters in 2 minutes, and the girls have to make 575m. You run two of them. If you fail to make one, then you have to run another-- max 3. But you get 6 minutes of rest in between each run. After you run these, your legs feel like that they are about to drop from your torso and you get some serious butt cramps.

Also, we have accountability partners, this means that is you, or you partner doesn't make the distance, you will have to run another with them.

Some one has to talk to your coaches fellas, we do all tmacks work outs which never has you runen over 900 meters never more the 150 at a time. Preseason conditioning we will run around a football feild 8 times really picking it up and stressing form threw the endzones twice a week. It is good s*** and its on grass. speaking of of grass tell Escibarr Knoxville is have a dry spell.

I've been doing the Texas State workouts. We've mostly been doing lots of running drills and circuits. I haven't run more than 100 meters in a row.

My hamstrings are still fairly sucky, so it's just as well that I am not overtraining.

we do circuits 3 times a week. A circuit is in Memorial stadium. We "gallop" which is basically using one leg and jumping up half way then swithch legs then we sprint all the way to the top. Then we run around the football field and come back and do pushups, ab rollers, push pull and back extensions and this whols Circuit is one. This week is a 4 6 6 week 4 mon 6 wend 6 fri. Its pretty tough but gets us fast and in good shape. We do technique and sprint work the other days.... I think it works great.

Has anyone seen www.bubbapv.com and seen his running workout. Do you think that it is good for the advanced but not elite high schooler?

Well... I train with our sprinters/hurdlers/jumpers... and most of the time our workouts are pretty decent (I feel like a few are not beneficial, but most are).

Some of the ones I feel help me the most are running hills on the streets behind our campus (which range from 100m to 150m, about 8 hills), there's one we do on our uphill sidewalk behind the library that's 200m (we do 6 of those, between 34-38 pace), there's also a 100m hill that's pretty steep that we do about 5 or 6 of. We'll run 200m and finish it with two sets of stairs (4 of those). Ummm... We'll do one where we run ten 200s with 60 second rest in between, I HATE that workout. We have a lot of stuff we don't do on the track, epsecially in fall training.

Anyway... sometimes I feel we (ME, especially) need more SPEED work, especially since I run a whole 94-95 feet! and I'm SLOOOOOOW. If anyone knows good speed drills, PLEASE let me know. Thanks!

Check out the Ty Law article in this week's Sports Illustrated. It summarizes the training program Bob Kersee developed for him so that he could build speed, strength and stamina -- and improve as a professional football player. It's a good example of what a sound fitness regimen can do to improve performance in any sport that is based on speed and strength.

We do 6x200 w/ 70 secods rest at 33 pace. tues. and on thur. we do 8x100. walk the curves. On MWF we do pole runs with 17' poles.

we do lots of different running things and its hard and i stink at all of them

saraf wrote:we do lots of different running things and its hard and i stink at all of them

LOL yeah that's what everyone of your teammates I have talked to mentioned

I was in Athens last week, but it was only a really brief stop.

OAKPV2004 wrote:We do 6x200 w/ 70 secods rest at 33 pace. tues. and on thur. we do 8x100. walk the curves. On MWF we do pole runs with 17' poles.

So how are you likeing U of H?