Hello Renato -
You show us a few weeks of Florence's training before her world record
in the half marathon. Can you please show us what type of training she
did after her half marathon world record to prepare for the London Marathon?
Hello Renato -
You show us a few weeks of Florence's training before her world record
in the half marathon. Can you please show us what type of training she
did after her half marathon world record to prepare for the London Marathon?
Renato dopes his athletes. Just another fraud coach.
no, he is innocent.
I would love his thoughts on her race.
I remember when Florence ran 1:05WR, he said, "ah, but the marathon is different."
Which is amazing that even at the most elite levels, once cannot nail a performance. I am sure there is disappointment in 2nd place and 2:20, but a good start.
My answer is very simple : this winter, our main goal was the WR in HM, and London Marathon became the second option.
If you prepare your best possible Marathon, you need to be able to run a fast HM about two months before the main race.
So, you can prepare a HM at 95% of your max potential USING ALREADY SESSIONS OF LONG ENDURANCE, and less session of SOPECIFIC HM SPEED ENDURANCE.
But in this case, we could only look for a HM in 66:00, not near 65:00.
Due to the specific preparation for HM, we had a long period without long run, and also after the WR practically Florence didn't have sessions of long run, apart one 45 km not fast, 6 days after the WR.
So, the reason because she lost in the final sprint when normally is faster than Edna in the last 300m is because she DIDN'T HAVE FUEL ENOUGH at the end of the Marathon.
However, for me this is the real beginning of the Marathon plan for the next 5-6 years. We needed to start from a high speed in HM, as basic quality for a Marathon in 2:17 in 3 years time.
From the next July, the idea for Florence is to become Marathon runner "full time", doing in training what she didn't do till now, for different reasons.
Why no long runs in the last 2 months?
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
2017 World 800 champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse banned 1 year for whereabouts failures