PM Treadmill @ TLAC: It was snowing when I came in tonight. WU 1.5 mi., Yasso 800s workout - 10 x 0.5 mi. @ 10.6 mph (2:49.8 / 0.5mi.) with no incline w/ 0.25 mi. rec. @ 8mph, CD easy pace up to 10 mi. During the run, Danny Fisher (trainer and local high school track and field coach, and let's not forget that he is one of the best runners around :) and I chatted a bit about this particular workout, and it correlation to marathon time. Ultimately, our conclusion was that yasso 800s times generally indicated a marathon time plus 4 or 5 minutes. Unless there were just perfect conditions and of course accounting somehow for the other six days of the week of your other training . Danny mad the point hit home - He said last season he had done the workout at 2:23 / 800m avg. a couple times, while his marathon time was like a 2:30. This made me feel better about my 2:57 :) PS - I love it when the treadmill shuts off at the hour cutoff and I have to press the quick start and put the speed back up to where it was. Car was covered with an inch of snow when I came out.
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