Discussion: Yasso

We were talking about this session down our club the other week and one of the lads has done it a few times with half the recovery. He swears by it.
The recovery does seem to be a bit long though from the origional session.
Will be interesting at London this year. Good luck!!!

I agree. I think the full recovery would be too long. I was also reading a couple of articles where people didn't think the reps were long enough and suggested 1200m or 1600m but still at Yasso pace.

Sounds a lot easier than running a 2.45 marathon to me...

Don't knock it until you try it OJ, might be tougher than you think, I'd be interested to know what sort of pace you should be doing the recoveries at, is it a walk/jog or a float?

an alternative view of Yassos.

I'm not knocking it, sounds like a good session - I just think it sounds a lot easier than running a 2.45 marathon.

That's the article I read last night. The problem with marathon training is that everybody has a different idea of what is best! It's just fun trying out something a bit different.

Oli, the whole idea of Yasso's is that if you can manage 10 x 800m in 2:45 you should be able to run a 2:45 marathon, how are you not knocking that principle?

Or was there a positive undercurrent to your message that I missed entirely?

My point is that Mike can comfortably run the Yasso session in 2.39s with reduced recovery already at this very early stage in his marathon training. Although I am confident that Mike will go under 2.45 at the London, I suspect that it may not be so easy to go out and run a sub 2.45 marathon tomorrow.

All I'm really saying is that there is a lot more involved in running a 2.45 marathon than there is in completing 10x800m.

It's just one session in an overall marathon training plan which contains lots of different things, all of which build towards the aim of running under 2.45.

I concur.

Multiply your current 10km time by 5 and minus about 12-13 minutes is a closer indicator to what you can run, after of course the many miles of training needed to actually get to the finish line.

So you are knocking Yasso's then? You don't think they are a good guide to marathon performance? I think I agree but it kind of depends on what speed you are meant to run the recoveries at, as a fartleky type session I think it could be really tough, particularly to do 10 at that pace, with walk/jog recovery not so tough...