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Can anyone direct me to any training plans of an Olympis Distance runner with low mileage/High Intensity workouts? |
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Sir Roger Bannister |
| uncircumcised american |
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probably like duane solomon |
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Lagat Wheating |
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Coe? |
| coach d |
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Kip Keino, one of the all-time greats off 30mpw with, as I recall, intervals 3 days a week, and Kenyan cross country training. The story and the workouts are in "Train Hard Win Easy". Henry Marsh, #2 all-time US in the SC, 30mpw apparently. Malmo has soem old threads about this. Said Aouita, claimed to not run over 50mpw. Coe style training (but faster with longer rest, according to Horwill) Doug Padilla, 50mpw or less There's a bunch more... |
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I think that coe was over 100 mpw |
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he hasnt been to the OLY yet but I think dan huling is pretty low mileage steeplers and 1500m men mainly. arent too many oly class 5000m+ running low mileage. olinger pre marathon? idk |
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A while ago, Hodge linked a story about Kawauchi's training: 80 mpw. Shockingly low for a Japanese marathoner, many of whom put in double the mileage....and run slower. http://runningtimes.com/Print.aspx?articleID=24166 |
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Henry Marsh did low miles. A sample training week was posted on this forum and can be found by doing a search. Basically one day of 3000 meter worth of intervals, another day of 1500 meter worth of faster paced intervals and a "long" run of 9-10 miles and then a race or 4 mile tempo run. Recovery days were 4-6 miles in doubles, 2 miles AM and 2-4 miles PM. Plus Sundays off. Other Mormon runners also took Sundays off (Padilla, Eyestone). Aouita claims to run relatively low miles, but was very secretive and was known to kick people out of the track ensure the secrecy of his training. Pattisue Plumer was also relatively low miles, but Brooks Johnson isn't considered to be a good distance coach around these parts. John Walker had to limit his mileage to 40 mpw due to compartment syndrome the year he won the Olympic 1500. |
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I wouldn't consider Walker a good example here. When healthy he was doing more than twice what you say. Harald Norpoth got a silver in the 5,000 and I've seen several samples of his training here. He probably didn't get over 50 mpw very often. Frank Sando ran in the 1952 and 1956 Olympics for the UK and reportedly only did about 45. Jack Foster was usually a once a day guy in the 60-80 range. Of course, if you go back in time far enough you get to an era when people didn't run that much. There was a guy called Dick Hart who ran the 10,000 for the US in Melbourne on 3-6 miles a day. And guys like Lovelock, Cunningham, etc. probably didn't get much over 30. |