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Re:Get Running with Couch to 5K by loeg on Sunday January 01, 2023 @01:40PM (#34209263)
Sprints are a fairly popular competitive event. It's part of track and field. 100/200/400 meters are all common sprint disciplines. 800 is sort of a sprint discipline. These competition distances are too short to provide much training benefit and you can't train at race effort 100% of the time. Competitive sprinters do a lot of volume (i.e., miles) at slower paces in addition to a lot of weight training.
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Re:Get Running with Couch to 5K by igouy on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:14PM (#34251763)
> These competition distances are too short to provide much training benefit

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"A typical Zátopek workout was 5×200, 20×400, 5×200 with 200m jogs in between. Over the years Zátopek increased his training load to include more and more repetitions getting up to 20×200, 40×400, 20×200 with 200 jogs for a workout."

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