Barometric wrote:
Mr. Whitlock: IF you decided to switch to purely 5-10K racing, would you alter your training?
You are doing wonderfully well at the marathon, but if you chose to switch to shorter distances would your 3-hour routine change to 1-hour or 45:00?
Thank you.
I think that I have said on some thread that my training is not very structured or organised, I have no coach and just go out and run, to some extent as much as I can given my background condition at the time which is the main determinant of how long I run.
I am having a few (hopefully) days off at the moment as my knee is hurting. When I start up again it will be a gradual build up. While I do think the extended training is more important for the marathon than 5 or 10k my training is aimed at the shorter distances too. Statistically I ran better 5 and 10ks than my marathon last year. So I am not sure how I would modify my training if I no longer ran marathons. It would depend on the reasons, nothing is ever static or unchanging, maybe I will have to change because of my knee, but I have had those problems before and got over them.