800 M question

crow024 · 02-27-2008, 08:14 PM

Alright, so I don't have a track at my college unfortunately so I'm not too sure on how to judge the distance.

I was hoping if anybody could tell me an above average 800m in seconds so I can judge distance on the street, luckily I live on a long stretch of road.

mechanikjoe · 02-27-2008, 08:56 PM

You could convert 800m to miles, and get in your car and use your mileage to tell you. That's what I did.

crow024 · 02-27-2008, 09:45 PM

thatd work...except im also carless...

I am doing the Infinite Intensity 50 day workout and its screwing me on the interval days

EnjoyKane · 02-27-2008, 09:55 PM

800m is roughly half a mile... actually about .4967etc...

so run half a mile...you should be able to figure that out

ThePitBull32 · 02-27-2008, 09:56 PM

My best time = 125 secs

mustang · 02-27-2008, 10:04 PM

Assuming you are wearing trainers and running on tar and trained pretty well maybe around 2:20-40, so run pretty hard for that long and it would probably be about that however it really all depends on your running ability... now if it was on a track with spikes it would definitely be faster

ThePitBull32 · 02-28-2008, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mustang

Assuming you are wearing trainers and running on tar and trained pretty well maybe around 2:20-40, so run pretty hard for that long and it would probably be about that however it really all depends on your running ability... now if it was on a track with spikes it would definitely be faster

Agreed...around 2 and a half minutes would be a good time to shoot for. I would suggest starting out seeing how many times you can run 800m in under 3 min, with 1 min breaks in between.

Quest4Glory · 02-28-2008, 12:11 PM

Go to

www.mapmyrun.com

I used it to measure out 800 meters the other day and got my sprints done, in meh alley with my shirt off being a attention whore.

crow024 · 02-28-2008, 03:20 PM

Thats perfect...I really appreciate that program