Has anyone been successful in the 1500+ running low miles?
Many athletes have, if you consider under 70 mpw "low miles." Bernard Lagat ran 60-70 mile weeks. Laura Muir runs 50-60 (outside of base training) on 6 days of training a week. Jake Wightman historically didn't do monster mileage, but credits last year's winter where he upped it to his breakthrough season this year. The way the event is going does seem to point to more athletes running 70mpw+ with the strength needed to run faster rounds than historically we see and a 3:29-3:31 final and not a 3:35+ one.
Depends on how you define “low” mileage. Seems like, aside from Jakob, most 1500m guys are in the 70-90 range. Wightman, Kerr and Garcia Romo closer to 70. I think Wightman and Garcia Romo touched 80 a few times. Hoare and McSweyn in the 90s. It just depends on the type of athlete you are.
FWIW I recall seeing Jakob’s mileage as 180km, not 115 miles. 180km is like 112. Close enough.
His training is dumb. You should run 40 miles per week with a 2 hr long run. Works for me! /s
I'm happy to run a 16 5K off 40 mpw whilst having a career and bringing up a young family and having holidays and socialising etc. There comes a point where more running is not worth the effort.
Many athletes have, if you consider under 70 mpw "low miles." Bernard Lagat ran 60-70 mile weeks. Laura Muir runs 50-60 (outside of base training) on 6 days of training a week. Jake Wightman historically didn't do monster mileage, but credits last year's winter where he upped it to his breakthrough season this year. The way the event is going does seem to point to more athletes running 70mpw+ with the strength needed to run faster rounds than historically we see and a 3:29-3:31 final and not a 3:35+ one.
Depends on how you define “low” mileage. Seems like, aside from Jakob, most 1500m guys are in the 70-90 range. Wightman, Kerr and Garcia Romo closer to 70. I think Wightman and Garcia Romo touched 80 a few times. Hoare and McSweyn in the 90s. It just depends on the type of athlete you are.
FWIW I recall seeing Jakob’s mileage as 180km, not 115 miles. 180km is like 112. Close enough.
Many athletes have, if you consider under 70 mpw "low miles." Bernard Lagat ran 60-70 mile weeks. Laura Muir runs 50-60 (outside of base training) on 6 days of training a week. Jake Wightman historically didn't do monster mileage, but credits last year's winter where he upped it to his breakthrough season this year. The way the event is going does seem to point to more athletes running 70mpw+ with the strength needed to run faster rounds than historically we see and a 3:29-3:31 final and not a 3:35+ one.
Depends on how you define “low” mileage. Seems like, aside from Jakob, most 1500m guys are in the 70-90 range. Wightman, Kerr and Garcia Romo closer to 70. I think Wightman and Garcia Romo touched 80 a few times. Hoare and McSweyn in the 90s. It just depends on the type of athlete you are.
FWIW I recall seeing Jakob’s mileage as 180km, not 115 miles. 180km is like 112. Close enough.
No, he is running 185km per week which roughly equals 115 miles per week.
I think he is running this weekly mileage from now to April/ May next year.
Except for competition weeks (European X country Champs?, indoor 1500 WR trial?,
Not all 115 mile weeks are the same. His is… Double most days. Lots of Threshold interval workouts. Easy days easy (heard he will even walk up hills to keep his heart rate low on east days). Keeps the long run from being too glycogen depleting. Also remember he’s been training since the age of 8 but has avoided burnout by monitoring his blood lactate levels very well. His build up has been over a decade during prime development years. So guys that ran 40 miles a week in high school shouldn’t think that running 115 miles a week will get them anywhere near Jakobs level.
Has anyone been successful in the 1500+ running low miles?
Jim Spivey? Dude made the US Olympic Team in 1984 (1500m - 5th in Olympic final), 1992 (1500m - 8th in Olympic final), and 1996 (5000m - advanced from his heat but not rom his semi-final). So he was a three-time Olympian despite not qualifying in 1988. He won a World Championships bronze medal in 1987 in Rome over 1500m. Lifetime bests of 3:31.01 (1500m), 3:49.80 (mile), and 13:15.86 (5000m). He, reputedly, was not a high mileage runner. Maybe he'll post on LetsRun again soon and tell us more.
I love Jim Spivey, but I gotta tell you, I was all kinds of livid when he went through the 800 in the 92 1500 Oly final in 2:07-08. Homeboy had no business doing that. Yeah, you don't want to lead the Olympics in a fast pace if you can help it, but he needed to try to do something other than rely on his relatively non-existent kick. I think Cacho ran like a 1:48.5 closing 800m
Was running 100 miles a week non including morning or afternoon jogs
I talked about this with Peter close to 20 years ago. He told me he was not happy that Arthur told people that. He told me that 100 miles in a week was about as much as he ever ran and said that he counted every step. For many of Arthur's other guys it was true that they did 100 in their main sessions and added more miles with a second easier run but it was not true for Peter.
What HRE said.
Quote from Snell: I could never run more than three consecutive weeks of 100 miles but over 10 weeks I logged a total of 1012 miles – the greatest amount of distance running I’ve ever done. And, whatever my progress during the week, I made absolutely certain that I covered the 22-mile Waiatarua circuit every Sunday right through the 10-week period. That was one part of the training I couldn’t afford to miss.
Beatty, Grelle, et al. ran 120+ regularly, under Igloi in the early-mid 1960s.
We all did.
So why were Lydiard's methods considered revolutionary?
Because he was the first to really emphasize periodization ie emphasis on building up endurance first in the off season and sharpening up with speed work during track season.
So why were Lydiard's methods considered revolutionary?
Because he was the first to really emphasize periodization ie emphasis on building up endurance first in the off season and sharpening up with speed work during track season.
I see. Thank you. Makes perfect sense. From what little I know about Igloi's methods, it sounds like he had his runners run varied paces year-round.
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