I'm curious as to how you view high yardage vs lower, targeted yardage? I agree that more quality and lower yardage can be better and produce good to great results in shorter events. I think it can be applied to the 500-1650/400-1500 to some extent, but that some measure of pounding out some serious pace work is required for those distances. Given time constraints now (early 40s), a GREAT week of training is around 20,000 yards. When I did my best 1500 time back in my youth, 20K could be a single day of training ... not every day, but weeks were more in the 70,000 to 90,000 meter range during the intense parts of training. I don't think I'd need to go that high now, but I think I'd need to be training 50K a week consistently to contemplate times that approached my best HS & college 1000 and 1650 times.
I'm curious as to how you view high yardage vs lower, targeted yardage? I agree that more quality and lower yardage can be better and produce good to great results in shorter events. I think it can be applied to the 500-1650/400-1500 to some extent, but that some measure of pounding out some serious pace work is required for those distances. Given time constraints now (early 40s), a GREAT week of training is around 20,000 yards. When I did my best 1500 time back in my youth, 20K could be a single day of training ... not every day, but weeks were more in the 70,000 to 90,000 meter range during the intense parts of training. I don't think I'd need to go that high now, but I think I'd need to be training 50K a week consistently to contemplate times that approached my best HS & college 1000 and 1650 times.
