Hi everyone - I'm a D3 collegiate female track athlete entering my senior spring track season. I have been consistently posting 800m race times of 2:20 for most of my high school and college careers, and would like to PR before I graduate - I'm sick of being unable to cross that 2:20 barrier. Does anyone have advice on ways I can enhance my training in order to drop a few seconds? My typical week of training during the season is outlined below:
Monday: intervals (typically a ladder...something like 1200, 1000, 800, 600, 400, 200 at ~6 min. mile pace with 2 minute recoveries between each interval)
Tuesday: 6 mile run and lift
Wednesday: intervals (1000 repeats, or another ladder)
Thursday: 6 mile run and lift
Friday: short, easy run
Saturday: race
Sunday: easy 5 mile recovery run
Should I increase my mileage? Should I be doing extra cross training? Should I be doing plyos? What can I do to lose 3 seconds?
Thanks so much for your help!!