Focussing on the 200m

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So, what are you recommending?

@Linas

For sure intensive tempo might be understood and applied differently and often it might depend for what event athlete prepares. I group what I call intensive tempo sessions not just these traditional ones like 6-10x200m with 1-2min recovery at around 80% max or 6x300m with limited rest periods. Transitioning from extensive tempo to speed endurance running sessions could be whatever you want to call them, it’s a matter of the coach how he likes to call them like intensive tempo, “control speed” or simply running at certain speed and distance. A sprinter who prepares for 200m would generally work in the intensive zone easier looking at metabolic cost compared with a sprinter preparing for 400m. So let’s take that particular sprinter with 200m PB of 23.3. Let’s presume he would be able to run 300m in about 37.5 during the end of GPP while preparing for the next season with the focus on 200m. During certain period transitioning from extensive to speed endurance he simply does running workouts like for example: 3 x 300m in 40-41sec with rest of 4-6min or 4 x 250m in around 34-35sec with similar rest. Could be 5x200m in around 27sec with 3-4min. Such workouts could be called whatever, I just say distance and time