I for one look forward to the Tokyo marathon. You are so lucky. I wish I had talent. You will get to run with Bekele, and see his gold medal. I wish I could be near Bekele. Make sure you spend time with him and be his friend while you are in the Olympic village. If I was you I would probably be following him all over the place. I'd melt in his arms.
Banana Bread wrote:
I for one look forward to the Tokyo marathon. You are so lucky. I wish I had talent. You will get to run with Bekele, and see his gold medal. I wish I could be near Bekele. Make sure you spend time with him and be his friend while you are in the Olympic village. If I was you I would probably be following him all over the place. I'd melt in his arms.
You get off by thinking of Bekele, don't you? Naughty!
My bet: He will retire from running by late this year or early next year and balloon up while enjoying all the ice cream in the world with the income from his hotels.
There was a sculptor. He found this stone, a special stone. He dragged it home and he worked on it for months until he finally finished it. When he was ready he showed it to his friends. They said he had created a great masterpiece, but the sculptor said he hadn't created anything. The statue was always there, he just chipped away the rough edges.
You might look at Bekele as something that gets literally dropped, but once he polishes away his rough edges, he will prove again that he is the best. Bekele won't balloon up in icecream.
Banana Bread wrote:
I for one look forward to the Tokyo marathon. You are so lucky. I wish I had talent. You will get to run with Bekele, and see his gold medal. I wish I could be near Bekele. Make sure you spend time with him and be his friend while you are in the Olympic village. If I was you I would probably be following him all over the place. I'd melt in his arms.
Haha, if i make it and he will take part too, i will try my best to get an autograph for you from Bekele.
I woke up early today and got my long run done for this week. 32 Km @ 3:53/km . Felt like i was working but if needed i could have gone on for another 16 km or so at this pace today.
Tokyolympian wrote:
You can follow it here. Does Kipchoge/Rupp/Moen/Shitara etc forward you a strava link? Hopefully you'll see me on television at the Olympics.
too easy, you could have waited a bit longer to reveal you are a troll. This was going well otherwise.
Tokyolympian wrote:
I'm off for my run. Easy today, 16 km at 4:45/km
If you're gonna post your training logs, please post weekly logs and not daily. I mean cmon man, no one cares that you ran 16k easy one time...
That 20*400 at 12s/km slower than your 10k pace ( so probably slower than hm pace) does seem a bit soft, but if it was easy it was easy I guess...
WEEK 1 - 157 KM / 97 MILES
MONDAY 16 KM @ 4:45/KM
TUESDAY 3km warm-up @ 5:00/km + 20x400m @ 77s/lap with a 400m lap
in 125-130s between reps + 3 km cool-down @ 5:00/km . Total : 22km
WEDNESDAY 16 KM @ 4:45/KM
THURSDAY 26 KM @ 4:13/KM
FRIDAY 32 KM @ 3:53/KM
SATURDAY 16 KM @ 4:45/KM
SUNDAY 5km warm-up @ 4:50/km + 14x1 KM @ 3:21/KM , between reps
2 min rest, easy jogging @ 5:30/km + 5 km cool-down @ 4:50/km
Total : 29km
Do you plan to eventually start running twice a day?
Here is the guy to beat:
Romanian maraton expert wrote:
Here is the guy to beat:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Soare
I will double some days from June onwards as we go to some altitude training. I know Nicolae Soare very well. He's got much more speed than me, but at the Half it's very close. He's definitely not a proven marathoner, he's had some shockers to be honest, so did I. Probably he'll be picked for the 5000 and 10000m. He's the national champ in both. As for the marathon, i look forward to make the team alongside Marius Ionescu. However i need the start to align and run a 2:15.
WEEK 2 - 156 KM / 97 MILES
MONDAY 27 KM @ 4:03/KM
TUESDAY 25 KM @ 3:58/KM
WEDNESDAY 25 KM @ 4:23/KM
THURSDAY 25 KM @ 4:29/KM
FRIDAY 14 KM @ 4:30/KM
SATURDAY 12 KM @ 4:30/KM
SUNDAY 6km warm-up @ 4:25/km + 10 KM continuous in 32:15 + cool-down 12 KM @ 4:05/KM
Total : 28km
I did a long run today, the temperature was +22C and it felt incredibly hot. I feel for those who went out at sub-2 pace in London. It was a miracle Kipchoge and Kitata didn't blow up.
My run was 34 KM @ 3:56/KM.
Where are you based?
Any chances of altitude training in Romania?
Your english is awesome too!
Mult noroc!
Iordachescu wrote:
Where are you based?
Any chances of altitude training in Romania?
Your english is awesome too!
Mult noroc!
Multumesc frumos! I focused on getting some proper education too!
I'm based in Bucharest. There is a possibility to have some proper altitude training in Romania at Piatra Arsa in the Bucegi Mts. At around 2000m, with some trails going on the Plateau up to 2300m, close to the altitude of The Great Rift Valley.
I'm Romanian and you got me curious. Since OG places are capped at 3 per country, how do you feel competing with Soare, Ionescu, and Corneschi? If you make the cut-off time, it would be fair to have a Romanian Olympic Trials, right? Or FRA will only pick top-3 results? I'm not aware of the full details of the process since we didn't have so many contenders.
Maybe you've posted but cannot find at the moment, what's your PB in the HM? From your week 1 logs, I can see you've missed the HM National Championships.
p.s. Are you trained by Cătălin Andreica by any chance? :)
Tokyolympian wrote:
WEEK 2 - 156 KM / 97 MILES
MONDAY 27 KM @ 4:03/KM
TUESDAY 25 KM @ 3:58/KM
WEDNESDAY 25 KM @ 4:23/KM
THURSDAY 25 KM @ 4:29/KM
FRIDAY 14 KM @ 4:30/KM
SATURDAY 12 KM @ 4:30/KM
SUNDAY 6km warm-up @ 4:25/km + 10 KM continuous in 32:15 + cool-down 12 KM @ 4:05/KM
Total : 28km
There's like... no fast running here. A 10k in 32:15? I did this workout in college training for a sub-30 10k. You need way more distance and way longer efforts. Running 4:30 K's is going to get you absolutely nowhere, and pretty slowly at that.
Yes i am. Well, the national champs wouldn't have done me any favours, and the weather/course weren't optimal too. I'm still a young runner, patience is the key. Well, i'll go mano a mano against all of them. Soare will run the 5 and 10k i guess and not the marathon.
LatviaFTW wrote:
Tokyolympian wrote:
WEEK 2 - 156 KM / 97 MILES
MONDAY 27 KM @ 4:03/KM
TUESDAY 25 KM @ 3:58/KM
WEDNESDAY 25 KM @ 4:23/KM
THURSDAY 25 KM @ 4:29/KM
FRIDAY 14 KM @ 4:30/KM
SATURDAY 12 KM @ 4:30/KM
SUNDAY 6km warm-up @ 4:25/km + 10 KM continuous in 32:15 + cool-down 12 KM @ 4:05/KM
Total : 28km
There's like... no fast running here. A 10k in 32:15? I did this workout in college training for a sub-30 10k. You need way more distance and way longer efforts. Running 4:30 K's is going to get you absolutely nowhere, and pretty slowly at that.
I will increase my long runs, already did 2 back to back this week. I'm on decent mileage already. You must be talking non-sense, that 10K was 2:16 Marathon Pace, which was done at +20C with an 80% effort. Considering i bumped my mileage recently and that my PB isn't yet under 30 mins i think it was a very fine performance.
Firstly you should try to lower your PB's on the track, it will help enormously afterwards.
Hey bub I revised my statement so maybe I know something that you don't