Guys,
In case you did not see Justin Harris' comment on the previous post, I am posting it here for all to see. Courtesy of Jut in sunny Hawai'i ... cleaned up for the purposes of this family blog ...
A little background information from one of the originators.
So it goes like this. Unhappy with the monotony and rather ease of 10x800 or 5-6x1,000 (Coach's idea of originality and fun) I walked into Sean Prinz's room in G11 and said, "Prinz, we need to do something hard. You know, the kind of workouts that when you think about them while you are sitting in class your heart rate immediately jumps up because you are a bit intimidated."
Prinz answers: "Yeah I miss those. What were you thinking about Jut?" "I don't know because 2x2mile,1x1mile at threshold is so easy. What if we just tried 2x2mile avg. sub 10?" I responded. "Oh, geez (edited). With full recovery in between?" Prinz shuttered. And at that moment I believe Schab chimed in as he stared deeply at the Pre poster in his room, "We could call it the AAU Championships!" And the rest is history.
There are only two rules really:
Rule Number 1: Do not let Coach talk you out of it. Some of the best races of certain runners careers were made during this workout. So don't let him fool you.
Rule Number 2: You have to try and average 10:00 for both.
Anything and everything else is legal. I'm glad that this great, great workout has become a tradition.
Congrats to Rolek! Now, if you don't break 15 flat for 5k then I am going to beat your ---.
Till we met again
Jut.
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