Tinman Half Marathon Philosophy?

Future Half Marathoner wrote:

For someone looking to run in the 1:15-1:20 HM range what would a Tinman Half Marathon buildup look like?

There seems to be a large fan base for the Tinman 5k-Marathon training on Letsrun, but also many critics. Mainly, it seems that the critics are criticizing the seeming absence of "true peaking", while the actual Tinman athletes claim it allows them to feel fresh year round. The philosophy of not attempting any "see god" type of workouts intrigues me, as well as the lack of race pace work (in Tinman marathon training), but would both these principals apply to the half marathon? Does anyone have experience with the Tinman training philosophy and workouts over Half Marathon?

That the Tinman runners would feel fresh year round can't be true? They all seem to get injured!

I ran a 1:18 off of this...

Run mostly about an hour a day 6-7 days a week

1.5-2 hour long run once a week

Steady State Run once a week

Fartlek or intervals or race once a week

(Sometimes I combined the long run and steady state run)

From what I’ve seen this kinda resembles Tinman training. With moderate mileage and just two harder runs a week.

Tinman does a lot of marathon pace work. He describes it as "tinman tempo" but it's basically the exact same as Daniels' M pace.

Mix that with some CV 1k-1 mile reps followed by strides/200m reps/hill sprints

You’d be better copying and scaling down to your level the training principles of another system that’s produced better results for actual elites rather than Tinman.

FatScottishJogger wrote:

You’d be better copying and scaling down to your level the training principles of another system that’s produced better results for actual elites rather than Tinman.

Hasn't TME only been around for like 3 years? They've already qualified a few guys for World's right? And Reed Fischer ran a 61:37 and was the top American at Houston. At the very least, those are decent results. Drew Hunter, at 21, qualified for worlds, and ran a 13:21 and 3:35. Really good times IMO.

I know you specifically asked for Tinman, but honestly for a Half you need to follow a 10k plan, maybe boost up the occasional long run, but if you can run a good 10k you can run a good half.

Reed was third American at Houston you twit. Both guys have sub elite PRs. No one on their team will ever be competitive on the world stage because they’re too afraid to risk it on big mileage and hard workouts.

I like this, very simple. Define steady state run: what type of pace?

At critical velocity (CV) you ejaculate and ideally leave nice semen stain on shorts

Hindsight is 2020 wrote:

I ran a 1:18 off of this...

Run mostly about an hour a day 6-7 days a week

1.5-2 hour long run once a week

Steady State Run once a week

Fartlek or intervals or race once a week

(Sometimes I combined the long run and steady state run)

From what I’ve seen this kinda resembles Tinman training. With moderate mileage and just two harder runs a week.

Heaven forbid you kept it simple!

In all seriousness... This kind of thing is exactly what I'm aspiring to!

jtface wrote:

Hindsight is 2020 wrote:

I ran a 1:18 off of this...

Run mostly about an hour a day 6-7 days a week

1.5-2 hour long run once a week

Steady State Run once a week

Fartlek or intervals or race once a week

(Sometimes I combined the long run and steady state run)

From what I’ve seen this kinda resembles Tinman training. With moderate mileage and just two harder runs a week.

Heaven forbid you kept it simple!

In all seriousness... This kind of thing is exactly what I'm aspiring to!

Steady state run around HM pace?

Keep

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