Originally Posted by
Mike T
I always do shorter reps these days, as they are, or were, done with 9-12 year olds. We might run hard for a minute or so, but it is usually less than that, but fast of course. One of my juniors beat Killian down Seat Sandal on his record breaking round.
We were repeatedly told on the level 2 coaching course days not to do 400 metre reps with juniors, but that 300s and 500s were OK - it was felt that 400s tempted them to unwittingly abuse their energy systems - something that adolescence sorted out.
It was Killian's book on mountain running that finally persuaded me that running slow to run fast probably had some logic to it.