Please Name Some 800m to 10000m Olympic Gold Medallists / World Record Holders Who Never Did 2hr / 20 Mile Runs.

Khalid Skah never run more than approx 1hour

Aouita. Cram. Coe. El Gerrouj. Morcelli.

Probably best to cut the 800m guys out of the question, as most of them wouldn't do a 2hrs run (I said most not all).

JRinaldi wrote:

Probably best to cut the 800m guys out of the question, as most of them wouldn't do a 2hrs run (I said most not all).

THIS IS INCORRECT I KNOW SOME 800 METER GUYS WHO DID 50 MILE RUNS... oh.. wait...

El G never ran more than 7 miles in one day.*

*I made this up.

someclaps wrote:

[quote]JRinaldi wrote:

El G never ran more than 7 miles in one day.*

*I made this up.

awesome.

Joaquim Cruz

I said best to remove the 800 guys, not the 1500.

I have a copy of Saids National Training program for 800 - 5000m guys and there are no 2hrs runs listed, but I'm no saying he never did them himself.

List of 800m winners since 1896 (note the some have won twice)that included 20 mile 2 hr runs in training

Edwin Flack NO

Alfred Tysoe NO

James Lightbody NO

Mel Sheppard NO

Ted Meredith NO

Albert Hill YES, but not many

Douglas Lowe NO

Tom Hampson NO

John Woodruff NO

Mal Whitfield NO

Tom Courtney NO

Peter Snell YES many

Ralph Doubell NO (his track sessions lasted 2hrs)

Dave Wottle NO

Alberto Juantorena NO

Steve Ovett Maybe a few, but mostly did double 10 miler days

Joaquim Cruz NO

Paul Ereng NO

William Tanui NO

Vebjørn Rodal NO

Nils Schumann NO

Yuriy Borzakovskiy NO

As I said, best to leave the 800m guys out of this question.

This is an awesome thread. You think of the best topics, Spooj! So interesting!!!

Jim Spivey

Lopes ('84 Marathon Gold, '76 10k Silver) claims he never ran more than 30km at a time.

Thugwane ('96 Marathon Gold) and a number of other South African marathoners claim they run low (120-140km/week) mileage. Not sure if this means <120 minutes)

Ngeny,Cacho,Boutayeb,Vasala?,Kip Keino

Dieter Baumman 5000 Gold

Fernanda Ribeiro 10000m gold as well as earliet 5000m WR

Well, Pheidippides only ran once over 2 hours, and it killed him.

first marathon winner wrote:

Well, Pheidippides only ran once over 2 hours, and it killed him.

I know this is a joke, I actually thought it was funny.

But seriously, it's wrong. Phiddy ran something like 140k the day before his lethal marathon.

Anyway, back on topic, a friend of mine who ran with Bernard Lagat at WSU said that he never trained more than 35mpw even for xc. I doubt that there were any 20 milers in there.

I have no idea what his training has been like since leaving WSU 8 or so years ago.

dont forget Craig Virgin!

most of his runs where no longer than 12 miles.

One name: Wilson Kipketer

Shrink wrote:

But seriously, it's wrong. Phiddy ran something like 140k the day before his lethal marathon.

You're still wrong. Pheidippides didn't die after running in Marathon or after any other run - in fact, he wasn't in Marathon at all.

The distance to Sparta, FWIW, it 145 miles not kilometers.

wilson kipketer is scheduled to run the dusseldorf marathon sunday may 6th 2007.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides