What’s up guys, I’m Jake Wightman and for those who don’t know me, I’m a British 1500m runner (and occasional 800m dabbler). I wanted to start sharing some stuff on here, and to begin with I’m going to give you a look at my 3 weeks of training in the build-up to running a 3:29 1500m in Monaco last Summer. This was a big PB for me and put me number 2 on the British all-time list for the event and helped me achieve a career goal of going under the 3:30 barrier. Hopefully the training data will speak for itself, but I’ll give you a bit of context around some of the stuff.
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Nice content!
Few questions for Jake:
1) How do you define the sessions like 6miles near 3’40/Km pace (between 5’40-6’00 pace)?
2) These runs are done to recovery or to touch the high-end of aerobic spectrum without jump into an hard tempo run?
3) Which kind of mileage do you do during winter?
4) Could you describe a typical sprint session?
Thank you!