He overtraind and got permanently injured. That's what happens when you are addicted to mileage.
From what I’ve read, his training is actually pretty low intensity and relatively moderate mileage for an elite marathoner. He just races a lot.
That may be but my understanding is he has run over 100 sub-2:20 marathons. This is not something one does if they want to stay healthy, and by that I don’t mean they cannot stay healthy, but if staying healthy is their top goal, they are a fool to do this.
This is a bit extreme of an response, and rude, to what the OP stated.
This isn't one singular poor race. This is an entire stretch of abysmal races over the course of a full year, and his racing frequency is dramatically down.
His body is likely cooked by now, and rightfully so. What he has accomplished up to this point is truly remarkable, and deserves to be celebrated, not criticized because he can't keep it up until 45 years old.
From what I’ve read, his training is actually pretty low intensity and relatively moderate mileage for an elite marathoner. He just races a lot.
That may be but my understanding is he has run over 100 sub-2:20 marathons. This is not something one does if they want to stay healthy, and by that I don’t mean they cannot stay healthy, but if staying healthy is their top goal, they are a fool to do this.
Someone who has managed that number of sub 2:20 marathons has done a pretty good job of staying healthy. But when he turned pro after winning Boston changed his running life. He'd usually been running once a day when he was working. The reports I was hearing said he was going to be training like typical Japanese elites do, i.e. lots more miles and 2-3 runs a day. I never got a detailed account but I did think that he'd found an approach that worked for him and there was a chance he wouldn't do as well on his new routine. Still I thought it was worth doing just to see what would happen.
One thing that I have trouble understanding though are runners whose primary goal is staying healthy. It's always better to stay healthy than not but I've always thought the prime goal of anyone in any sport is to do as well as possible. If you get hurt now and again long the way it's unpleasant but you'll usually heal. Derek Clayton was always getting hurt but in between injuries he did things that immortalized him. I'd have glady had his injuries if I could have run just nearly as fast as he did. I wonder many of today's runners feel like that.
The upvotes and downvotes often don't seem to make much sense. I remember that I once posted something like "good luck, I hope that your race goes well" and got downvoted.
and now i see why nobody get's fazed by a bunch of downvotes and keeps plowing through no matter how dumb or irrelevant his opinion is. just people downvote for the sake of it and of course the downvote gets devalued and nobody takes it seriously. very very rarely i've even seen people acknowledge the votes at all. that's one of the reason i commented here, because it's one of the like 5 times somebody mentiones them. :D
letsrun is full of extremely troubled, dark, sick people who, for some reason nobody sane will understanding- love tearing others down. Their owners- speaking specifically to Robert Johnson is no different - an extremely troubled crazy hater who hates on people he's never ever met. personal proof in my laptop here and via recorded phone calls.
Yuki just ran 2:18 at Vancouver, one week after running 1:05 in the Gifu Half. So it doesn't look like he's cooked yet. Looks like his injury problems from 2024 are behind him and he's working back into his normal racing schedule.
I don't see how people can down-vote questions. It makes no sense. If you don't care about Kawauchi, why would you click on this thread?
We are not professional track journalists, so if you know something about Yuki, please share. If not, you can just wait for info like the rest of us...