mottram and commonwealth games

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18 years ago 09/18/2005 10:01pm EDT

i'm wondering how mottram and his coach will structure his schedule for a win at the commonwealth games in march. i assume since there is no summer championships, that they will focus all their efforts on march... however, i have 2 questions:

1. how well can he peak for march having already reached a peak performance in august? assuming he takes some time off after september, does that leave him enough time to scale up his mileage and then peak for a late winter 5k?

2. how will this leave him for summer racing... is he likely to bag the golden league circuit and train for a possible world cross showing in 2007? (a debut??? not up on my mottram history)

how do most of the elites train for this upcoming season w/out a major summer championship.... do they all peak for march?

18 years ago 09/18/2005 10:28pm EDT

re: BA

yeah, money isn't everything, but there's no way he'd bag a summer of golden league meets for a commonwealth title. no freaking way.

18 years ago 09/19/2005 12:21am EDT

re: electric boogaloo

Bullsh-t. The Commonwealth Games are huge to the nations who compete - certainly a LOT more important than a summer in Europe. My two cents is that Mottram focuses 100% on Melbourne. Not only that but he'll double 15/5 or 5/10.

18 years ago 09/19/2005 8:53am EDT

re: aussie

I think Buster will run the World cross and the World Indoors.

He should anyway.

The CG are like the ashes: only the Brits and the Aussies are interested.

18 years ago 09/19/2005 9:26am EDT

re: BA

BA wrote:
how do most of the elites train for this upcoming season w/out a major summer championship.... do they all peak for march?

Sometimes I am not sure what "peaking" realy means anymore. Bekele seems to be able to double up at World XC and win both races, and then comeback in the summer, set world records and win championships. I think it is more of a state of existing/continued high base fitness, combined with the knowledge of when to rest and lift your hard stuff to an even higher intensity when preparing for your target races. Just my two cents, I am not a super coach, but I do read letsrun a lot.

18 years ago 09/19/2005 9:44am EDT

re: zubrek

Love your post Zubrek.

A mini season might be employed between now and March, then another one for March to September. This works well when one does NOT get caught up in Lydiardisms. Like Bekele and aothers.

18 years ago 09/19/2005 10:13am EDT

re: Skuj

Unless things have changed drastically since I coached there, I thought most Aussie elites use a program that has them peak more than once per year. In fact, a major fault in the US system is that they try to peak at least 3 times per year.

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