Training Advice

Lee. How long would you say a flat out sprint training should be then?

When the clocks go forward I intend to do laps of regents Park in the evening. Plan to to at a nice steady pace and then do bursts of absolutely flat out every lap. How long should these bursts last for do you reckon? What sort of intervals should I be looking at between each one? Bearing in mind that it is the endurace races that I am primarily interested in, but I want to have a good sprint on me for the end

Cheers

hey mike, really you need two different sessions, one where you do short sprints between 100m and 500m long with plenty of rest for improving your sprint and the other is the kind of session you described where you do short hard (but ultimley submaximol because of the lack of recovery) efforts with a small amout of active rest.

For example I had the guys doing 500m flat out with a rolling 600m rest x 4, 20min seated rest and repeat on Saturday.