Katie Ledecky

[gsbelbin]

Interesting that Katie Ledecky and her coach said in an interview recently that all she does is race pace 50s and 100s. And someone asked her what she does for repeat 800s and she said she never does them. While not true USRPT (because her coach said they are short rest and long rest) it confirms that this is not just for sprinters as some people (who haven’t read all the literature) have said.

[kevin]

Interesting indeed. Do you happen to have a link to that interview?

[gsbelbin]

Here’s the link to the Bruce Gemmell interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0tlX2hdJs.
Here’s where she says he doesn’t do 800s in training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbzCzxb7qps.
And here’s another one with Katie where she also talks about race pace 100s, hitting 59s and the 58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d00awPIi840

[MSchuber]

The key is race pace. You do that…you are training specifically.

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