Hi there
Just want to share this website with you. It is about Peder Troldborg, a former Danish eliterunner, who only do shorts runs. There is a lot of info about his traning and some other stuff. Some of the website is in danish, but you will also find a english section. He has run a marathon in 2.23.28 at the age of 42 without any long runs.
The website is vivamarathon.dk
Best regards
Christian
PS: if you want my to translate something, let me know.
( my english is not too good :-/ )
I'd love to learn more about this. On the website it says that he does marathon-pace work during every run. But it also lists specific workouts (intervals) that he does 1-2 times a week. So are the 1-3 km at marathon pace that he adds to every run done in addition to the workouts that he lists on the spreadsheet? And is he really running at race pace or faster 13 or 14 times a week?
So, basically he train like an elite? Who woulda thought- twice a day running, revolutionary. :-/
someone shot JFK wrote:
So, basically he train like an elite? Who woulda thought- twice a day running, revolutionary. :-/
You obviously didn't read the op or the website. The guy does nothing but short runs- like 4 or 5 miles each, totaling ~60 miles a week. But he still put up some good marathon times, just by doing a lot of mp running on his short runs. I'd like to hear more about it.
Thank you for that. I love things like that and am always interested in seeing something different and effective.
There are some others who have done things along the line of Tordberg, did I get his name right? There was a thread here many years ago about Tony Simmons, 4th at 10,000 in the '76 Olympics and later a 2:12 marathoner who trained on a couple 4-6 mile runs each day. There was an Aussie called John Farrington who by many accounts did a couple 5-6 mile runs each day though I think he may have done something a bit longer on the weekends. There was a very good ultramarthoner in the '70s called Ken Young who developed what he called the "Collapse Point Theory" suggesting that to race at a particular distance you need to have a daily average of 1/3 the race distance for 8 or 10 weeks (I forget exactly) before the race. He didn't think you needed long runs, just total miles mattered. He managed a 2:25 marathon with no runs longer than 12 and a half miles.And at about the same time Runner's World, which was still interested in racing fast then, referrenced a study done on female British marathon runners which showed that the single greatest predictor of racing success was the number of sessions run in the months prior to their race. The authors were clear that number of sessions was the main indicator, not total miles. That was the second predictor.
Google does a pretty good job of translating. Thanks again.
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