that 12x400 workout indicates sub 4 mile ability. I'm going to call bullshit. And 8 something 2 mile? uh yeah........no.

I train with a 400m group once per week and initially he had comment on Billy Dib about running some pretty quick 400's off short recovery and I said "BS those times would nearly break 4min for a mile". I was actually doing easy 200's and some drills so when I saw him there i immediately remembered the comment. I'm pretty bullheaded and wanted to prove my coach wrong and I timed the reps, then the rest and it was legitimately 58s which was his target times too.After talking to him I found out how similar boxing was to running. Currently there is this whole debate on anaerobic vs aerobic where old school coaches preach 8-10miles every morning and 10x3min on 1 min off x 2 per week to replicate the rounds whereas new school thought is saying that you only have to do sprints and afew really fast 3miles runs. It instantly reminded me of the debates between runners over lydiard v modern ideas of low mileage. In anycase it seems that alot of boxers are actually on a high mileage training program with boxing combined. Pretty much it leads me to believe alot of the lighter weight guys could be pretty good runners. [Obviously those 10x3min runs with 1min rec are for the boxing rounds but by pure fluke it also happens to be one of the perfect sessions to improve vo2max]