Lactate Threshold Training

Hurray, our threshold thread lives again! :slight_smile:

Received the biomech data from Brisbane but only for three men in the 400m (Ben Offereins 1st in 46.2, Kevin Moore 2nd in 46.8 and Clay Watkins from SASI). One thing I took from it is the differential for Kevin which was a world class 1.01sec between the go-out 200 and the come-home 200m. Ben’s was 1.13sec. You might have expected such a tight differential given the slow times. Kevin went out in 22.9 which is very slow but still it was his first run over any race distance since the Com Games 4x4 relay final in mid-October, so his coach and I were pleased that at least the differential suggests his base is in place for the current domestic season. Obviously he needs to get faster and I’m certain he will.

I suppose the reason for posting now is to point out that although Long to Short is reputed to be the best option for establishing the greatest “endurance” base - and Ben has run 800m this Oz summer in 1:52 - it was in fact Kevin, working entirely off the concurrent methods espoused on this thread, who endured no worse and perhaps better than Ben with a tighter differential.