I live onboard a ship a week at a time and am thus relegated to a treadmill every other week. I've seen a training routine called YASSO 800s mentioned elsewhere on this site which could break up the "lab rat" effect of running distance on a treadmill. Just wondering if anyone has actually used them for marathon training and how realistic are they?
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If you could do a long one as soon as you get off the ship, and just before you go back again, and then use the treadmill for shorter runs or intervals, then you should do all right. But it is the long run that is the key for Marathons. I presume that's what you are going for ?
As Cougie says they're just intervals, but they did give a structure to my training at the time.
However, I would suggest that the formula can be used in reverse. If you can't do 10x800 at 3:15 for 800, then you're probably not fit enough for a 3:15 marathon. Of course the flaw is that an interval session is not a marathon. You could in theory be marathon trained but not interval trained. Hilly and others have proven that you can be interval trained, but not marathon trained to the same indicator level.
Does this make sense?
Anyway.....do use the programme. Treadmill hamsters need something to live for!
In hindsight, regardless of the Yasso's i didn't have the endurance, and secondly running on the treadmill at speed is that bit easier than the track.
So as ever it's not straightforward, that said i enjuoy a Yasso session as it goes!!