by Patrick Zweifel | Feb 3, 2019 | Coach Drew
Athlete: Michael Murphy Prescribed Workout: 7-8 mile tempo run around marathon effort (6:20-6:30) Result: 7 miles at 6:26 avg. A longer “tempo run” is a pretty standard weekend workout for most of our athletes. Murphy is now fit enough to where he is no...
by Patrick Zweifel | Jan 27, 2019 | Coach Drew
Athlete: Christian Parr Prescribed: 6 x “flying” 40m at 80%/80%/85%/85%/90%/90%, with at least 4 minutes of rest. Result: 6 x 40m at the prescribed effort Percentages are based off Max speed. When I’m asking Christian to run at 80%, that’s 80%...
by Patrick Zweifel | Jan 6, 2019 | Coach Drew
Athlete: Asher Catterall Prescribed Workout: Easy recovery run. Result: 30 minute run at 7:30 pace Ah. I know what you’re thinking. An easy run is not a workout. True, but it’s arguably just as important if not more, and I think there importance of sharing...
by Patrick Zweifel | Jan 4, 2019 | Coach Drew
Athlete: Aki Kitagawa Prescribed Workout: 8-10 x 400 in (72-70) Result: 8×400 in (74,71, 69, 70, 68, 69, 69, 69) On our log, I don’t see what the rest was. I probably communicated with him about the elsewhere. I asked for these to be done at, and a little...
by Patrick Zweifel | Jan 4, 2019 | Coach Drew
Athlete: Tyler Van Dyke, otherwise known as TVD, to his peers, friends and enemies. Prescribed Workout: 70 minute progression (6:10 > 5:25) Results: 10 miles in total ( 6:15, 6:15, 6:00, 6:00, 6:00, 5:45, 5:45, 5:45, 5:30, 5:30) Fall of 2017 Tyler was training in...
by Patrick Zweifel | Jan 4, 2019 | Coach Drew
Athlete: “Master Murph” Prescribed Workout: 3 mile threshold + 4×200 Result: 3 miles in 17:29 (5:46, 5:51, 5:52) 4 x 200 (37.2, 36.7, 35.8, 36.9) I didn’t give Murphy a prescribed pace. We at best have a general idea of his fitness as he...
