400 workout?

[Charlie_Francis]

@vedette

A 400 girl I coached through high school is now a freshman at a D2 college. Her HS marks were 26.8 and 59.1. A typical tempo workout last year was 8X200 @ 70% (39 sec.) with 75 to 90 seconds rest.

She has trained with her college team for about a month, running two or three times a week. She just told me that this Monday they are expected to run “between 20 and 30” 200s at 35-36 (= 75%) with 60 seconds rest. Is this reasonable or useful?" I doubt it is even possible. What do you all think? She is a hard worker, but this seems a bit much. I told her to do as many as she can, but not be embarrassed when she cannot continue. BTW the school’s top runner was at 57.9 last season.

Have you looked through the lactic threshold thread? It’s a tremendous 400m resource.