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Yasso 800s are NOT predictors of race ability. ...If you can complete the workout, then you should be fairly confident that the goal time is attainable. Yasso 800s are not meant to be done as a predictor.
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By the way, I've never heard that you should be taking full recoveries equal to your rep times. Is that accurate? Four minutes is a helluva rest. I suspect a lot of people could pull that off who'd never make a 4:00 marathon..
Yasso will be especially skewed for people that compete in distance events, but possess good natural speed. There's a ton of collegate athletes that could manage 10 x 800 in 2:10, but struggle to complete a marathon in anything faster than 2:40.
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Thanks for the replies The question really was about how two tools could be so at odds with one another (McMillan and Yasso). I guess I did not get that across very well.
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