Testing at Loughborough
On the 10th June I went to Loughborough and did some testing as part of preparation for the European Champs - it's pretty interesting stuff so I thought I'd share it. I can't attach the pdf so I've taken screengrabs which should work!
I think it's pretty self explanatory. It's interesting that my running economy isn't that great, but this was done at a time when I felt pretty awful generally, and it predicts my marathon pace at around 5.30 miling. It would be interesting to see how this changes when I am in good form, as I think some of this can vary a bit if you're tired/feeling crap. The lactate levels are pretty low and these are the guides I have been using for training in Font Romeu, making sure I don't go above certain levels (3-5mmol for marathon pace work, 7-9 for 10k paced stuff).
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It's interesting that the Canova stuff fits with my PBs and I'd really like to do this test again now that Im feeling better!
Ben Posted on July 17th, 2010Dave - I've never artificially tried to alter my breathing pattern - I skimmed that paper and it's very interesting but I'd like to hear some stories of guys who have tried it to see how they went about it and so on. Intriguing...
good luck
Ben,
dave kirkland Posted on July 14th, 2010Thanks for posting; so interesting to see this data and to follow your training fine tuning. Best wishes for a great performance in Barcelona.
What is your breathing pattern? Could be part of the answer to an improvement in economy (see http://www.iaaf-rdc.ru/eng/news/0027e.html) would be an easy trial anyway (after Barcelona!)
Dave
lab results,
renato canova says you can run a marathon at 2.5 mmol of lactate, which is about 18.7 km/h for you according to the graph which is about 2.15 or 5.10 per mile, your 4.58 per mile for turnpoint fits nicely with your half pb.i think thats an encouraging lab result given how u had been feeling. interestingly renato canova also uses 95% of threshold speed (298 + 14.9= 312.9, not proper maths but the way he does it) to calculate marathon pace, for you thats 5.12.9 per mile. good luck and i really enjoy reading your blogs.i think a very encouraging test.
5.31?? Posted on July 11th, 2010