Sebastian Coe - Born to Run - Part 3.flv

[benjamintheblue]

Why train uphill then? Surely thats spending extra energy on parts of the muscle he will not use in a race on flat. Not to mention times would be different. Was he just a genetic freak that could do anything and win in that era? Do todays top runners train up hills when they are to run on a track?

[2dtrack]

holy hell that workout is insane. my crazy 8's have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on what he did

[seandchoi]

Watching Seb train is so awesome!

[sisu458]

I wonder what the song is from 2:05 to 2:53. 80s awesomeness!!

[bijection765]

If coe doesn't run them fast enough, he will get run over!

That is a tough way to train!

[Lmnopen929]

7:28: *click*... Beast mode... Engaged... 

[fool1977]

My PR is 1:51.21. I cannot IMAGINE doing that in an interval session!

[deano27671]

6 x 800m in 1:50-1:55 with 90 secs rest between reps! I can't begin to imagine what that must feel like. I wonder how many 800 guys in the UK are doing a similar session today?

[blaharns]

@deano27671

Nobody of course, since nobody is running 1,41-42

[deano27671]

@blaharns You're right, except Kipketer in the late 90's. I still think Coe could have gone sub 1:41.0 if he'd not been ill in 82 & 83. I think the British took him for granted, considering that only now, 30 years later, are there 2 guys (Rudisha & Kaki) approaching his times on faster mondo tracks. Those 6 x 800 sessions were brutal. I've read elsewhere that athletes since Coe have tried replicating his training sessions, only to break down unable to sustain it for more than a few weeks.

[deano27671]

He really struggled at the end of that 1000m WR as he was on antibiotics for a throat infection. At the time journalists in Britain commented on how much easier Ovett looked at the same meet when he broke the Mile WR an hour later. For that hour after the 1k WR, Coe held the 800, 1000, 1500 & Mile world records simultaneously. That's never been done before or since and probably never will be again.