> These competition distances are too short to provide much training benefit ? "A typical Zátopek workout was 5×200, 20×400, 5×200 with 200m jogs in between.

> These competition distances are too short to provide much training benefit ? "A typical Zátopek workout was 5×200, 20×400, 5×200 with 200m jogs in between. Over the years Zátopek increased his training load to include more and more repetitions getting up to 20×200, 40×400, 20×200 with 200 jogs for a workout."