George213 wrote:
Oh, that's not what I meant. I actually wanted to say that your training is similar to Kipchoge's (And that's why "I thought of your training at once" upon checking out his schedule)
My bad. Could use some work on my communication skills, haha.
Ah, ok, my bad probably, too. To be honest I was heavily inspired by an 80s runner that advices me (he trained with some 2:10 - 2:12 guys back then and ran 29:low/44:xx 15k/1:03/2:19) and the Kenyan style training in Iten, where I stayed 3+ weeks. Tuesday track, Thursday Fartlek, Saturday long/hard - very similar to Kipchoge. Sometimes I would more do a Tu - Fr - Su or We - Fr - Su rhythm bc of work (better to run hard on Friday when you may go home earlier than Thursday).
I experimented with some Canova stuff but I had to be very careful. While a 40k run at 90 % of MP was ok, when I got significantly nearer to MP it would wear me out, might be more mentally than physically but I never was pro and have to pay my bills, so I gotta work with the cards I got.
I feel like because of this I was pretty strong across the board (I just lacked world class speed/speed endurance to be honest but still hope to run 2:13ish). I always did better when I almost never did those all-out workouts but something left in the tank. After a couple months with many, many fastish miles of submaximal long hard running I was always ready to roll for sure. I would NEVER advice someone who really wants to hit a great marathon do not do at least 25k tempo runs and to not run at least one time 40 - 43k. I never ran a good marathon without at least 40k long runs. But I know many see that in an other way. What I can say: I didn't fear the distance what was hige mental boost for me.
Happy running! I am super excited for Sunday. Pikachu