RENATO, can you comment on the 2011 World Championships preparation

I see no problem with running diagonals on the grass.

It would be worse for the knees to simply run laps on a rubberized track with rubber soles, which many people do and think nothing about it. If the diagonals were on a rubberized track or asphalt road, then maybe they would not be so good, but on grass should not be any problem. The grass does not grab the feet and therefore doesn't cause any torque to the knees.

too hard perhaps wrote:

Personally i think Chris Solinsky is training too hard .He is part of Kimbia group trainde by Dieter Hogan who was previously Edna Kiplagat's coach.Alot of Kimbia atlhletes have said dieter's programs are too hard.They are always tired and cant recover properly for sessions and races.

Solisky's is with the kimbia agency but he isn't part of Dieter's group. Kimbia isn't a training group it is a sports agent group. Chris runs for Jerry Schumacher.

I thought he ran for himself and that Schumacher is his coach.

RENATO,

Can you explain exercises for feet reflectivity? I have heard Baldini's coach mention the same thing in that Baldini needed to improve feet reaction before Athens.

Thank you.

Hi Renato!

Are you still involved in Zakia Mrisho`s training?

Could you give us some insight on her situation?

Thanks a lot.

It is a blessing to have someone with such great knowledge to share with us!

Hey , it be interesting to know what exercise Abel was doing to cause the injury.

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Great info, thank you again as always Mr. Canova.

I might start a new thread but I would love to find out a little bit more about the recovery portion of the interval, pace, effort, etc. Perhaps a bit of information on both and whether or how they might change given the period of training.

I have read a Chris Puppione article in which you referenced for 10K Specific Pace training to work the recovery interval at 80% of the speed of the race pace. I would be very interested to know if you have similar percentages when it comes to 3Ks and 5K paces.

Coach JT you are very Racist person you don't deserve to be called a coach.

with that kind of bad and dirty attitude you have you seem to have the worst dirtiest Personality and attitude then Imane Merga the Ethiopian Great athlete

as a coach you would more educated and more kind against any athletes telling your athletes to watch out from Imane Merga and calling him Dirty is not the sign of mature behaviour or a smart thinking please fix your ugly personality

become a better coach not only a coach become a better person with big heart more kindness

as Coach Renato the best coach in the world explained about Imane Merga he is lovely and kind very humble young man out side the sport, he knows him more then you do so please do not judge or hate people with out knowing their real personality shame on you i am very disappointed of you.

I love reading the Renato Canova stuff, but it amazes me that given how focused letsrunners can be that nobody picked up on the two missing Sundays in the sample 10k training plan (I missed it too the first time I read this thread). Anybody care to suggest what is likely to be in there?

Nobody?

What incredible information about the drawbacks of 'symmetrical' training... Thanks for bumping!

You're welcome.

Looking at it I'd guess that the first missing Sunday (week 3) must be a workout, and probably a pretty meaty one given the two days of regeneration afterwards, and the 2nd missing Sunday (week 4) is possibly a (relaxed?) fartlek, or a high volume moderate day, but it would be interesting to hear other thoughts...

Interesting that he can be with the athlete all day every day during his preparation and can't do anything to stop the athlete from injuring himself with unapproved drills but is certain there is no way his athlete would ever dope...

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What incredible information about the drawbacks of 'symmetrical' training... Thanks for bumping!

I agree but I don’t necessarily think you need to constantly be changing the days of the week you have workouts. But a willingness to replace a workout with something easier is often necessary.

Say for instance you workout Tuesday’s, Thursday, and do a long run on Sunday. If the long run on Sunday is very intense or one races that day than it makes sense to skip the Tuesday workout. This enables one to not only recover but continue to increase volume.

Really the key is to increase volume and intensity at the same time. This is easier said than done and requires flexibility to ones approach.

Kickass thread!