Found an old picture of myself and him after the Crescent City Classic 10k in New Orleans . He was one of my heroes as a young runner. Very nice and humble man. I wonder where he is today.
What I recall about Mike was that he said he ran one hour a day, and sometimes it was 12 miles and sometimes maybe 9 miles or whatever distance it was one hour.
When I saw your thread "Michael Musyoki" I immediately got interested because he is one of
the world class runners in history on just low mileage.He really proved you can reach the top on just singles!
A common training week for him looked like this;
M: 60 min easy ( his easy pace around 6 min mile pace)
Tu: 60 min fast tempo at around 5:06 per mile ( 3:10 / km )
We: 60 min easy
Th: 60 min easy
Fr: 6-8 x 800m at 2:06-2:08 min
Sa: 60 min easy
Su : 90min -2 hours easy
Another low mileage world class runner that trained similar is Bernard Lagat.
Mike ran his first marathon in 2:10!( I don`t remember but I also think it was his last? That I`m not sure of.... )....and he was world record holder at half marathon.
Found an old picture of myself and him after the Crescent City Classic 10k in New Orleans . He was one of my heroes as a young runner. Very nice and humble man. I wonder where he is today.
He was second to Lopez in 1985 at that race. He ran the Crescent City Classic in 1996, when it was also the US Champions and was a good distance behind me that day. I don't recall his time, maybe 30 something. He finished right around the 1993 World Marathon Champion that day, who also had an off day.
Hi Coach JS, just wondering what's your source for this schedule. It looks fairly accurate, but for what's worth this what Tinman wrote on his daily hour runs:
''Always Banks had his runners do a "shakeout" run of about 10 minutes with several easy striders BEFORE and AFTER a 1-hour run. So, really, it was more like 80 minutes of running, but people like Musyoki didn't count that as "real running" because it wasn't a solid effort.''
Found an old picture of myself and him after the Crescent City Classic 10k in New Orleans . He was one of my heroes as a young runner. Very nice and humble man. I wonder where he is today.
One of my heroes too!! A bronze medalist in 10000m Lös Angeles Olympics and American road circuit winner and half Marathon world record holder on just low mileage and singles daily sessions 🇸🇪🧙♂️ .
What I recall about Mike was that he said he ran one hour a day, and sometimes it was 12 miles and sometimes maybe 9 miles or whatever distance it was one hour.
That was Ron Clarke's training as well. Due to family pressed for time. Normally around a Hippodrome = horse race course.
What I recall about Mike was that he said he ran one hour a day, and sometimes it was 12 miles and sometimes maybe 9 miles or whatever distance it was one hour.
That was Ron Clarke's training as well. Due to family pressed for time. Normally around a Hippodrome = horse race course.
Clarke's training has been reported as 2 or 3 times per day; 45mins at lunch and an hour to 75 mins in the evening. Somtimes 3-4 miles in the morning. It was all pretty fast according to what was written.
That was Ron Clarke's training as well. Due to family pressed for time. Normally around a Hippodrome = horse race course.
Clarke's training has been reported as 2 or 3 times per day; 45mins at lunch and an hour to 75 mins in the evening. Somtimes 3-4 miles in the morning. It was all pretty fast according to what was written.
What I recall about Mike was that he said he ran one hour a day, and sometimes it was 12 miles and sometimes maybe 9 miles or whatever distance it was one hour.
That was Ron Clarke's training as well. Due to family pressed for time. Normally around a Hippodrome = horse race course.
Clarke used to do about 20 kms most mornings around Caulfield racecourse (turf) often barefoot. Pace often cranked up pretty quick, last laps often close to 3 min km pace. He would do another run later in the day, sometimes reps eg 10 x 400 around 60s. He race prolifically so didn't need to do much speedwork. On Sundays he usually hammered out a 27 to 35 km run in the steep forests of the Dandenongs.
Clarke used to do about 20 kms most mornings around Caulfield racecourse (turf) often barefoot. Pace often cranked up pretty quick, last laps often close to 3 min km pace. He would do another run later in the day, sometimes reps eg 10 x 400 around 60s. He race prolifically so didn't need to do much speedwork. On Sundays he usually hammered out a 27 to 35 km run in the steep forests of the Dandenongs.
For what it's worth, Ron typically did a 5-6 mile morning run with his wife riding along on a bike. He told me he did not consider that run as training but rather as time spent with his wife. After work he would go to the Caulfield Race Track and run with his friends and club mates. The track was 1.2 miles long and he said they often ran in bare feet. There were several Australian Olympians and internationalists in this group. Both Ron and Trevor Vincent, '64 Olympian in the steeple, told me that the run would begin easily, everyone ran in a group for a while but the pace would accelerate and guys would drop back. In his early years there Ron struggled to keep up with Trevor and Tony Cook, '64 10,000 and marathon Olympian, but by 1962 that changed and he was usually on his own in the last miles. He might be running 4:30-4:50 miles in the late stages. The runs lasted an hour. He told me that sometimes on Thursdays instead of running at Caulfield he'd do a road run with Derek Clayton and some others. It could go for about 18 miles and he said he and Clayton burnt off everyone else early in the run. More often than not he raced on Saturdays and pretty much always did a run of two hours or so in the hills on Sundays, always with a big group.
The story of three runs a day is accurate but only to a point. In 1965 he did experiment with a lunch time run in addition to the two mentioned here. It was not something he kept to but Sports Illustrated sent a writer, Gwymlin S. Brown I believe, and a photographer to Australia to do a story about Ron. (Imagine SI doing that today.) They got there when Ron was doing the three a day experiment and Brown wrote that into the article as how Ron trained. Evidently Fred Wilt took that as accurate and reproduced it in the training profile of Ron that he put into "How They Train; Long Distances."
So yes, the often hard one hour run is something common to Musyoki and Clarke but Ron had a second run. Interestingly though, as I said, he did not consider that run part of his training and told me he'd have been "exact;y the same runner if (he) didn't do it." So maybe you could say he was like Musyoki and just did the hour most days.
Clarke used to do about 20 kms most mornings around Caulfield racecourse (turf) often barefoot. Pace often cranked up pretty quick, last laps often close to 3 min km pace. He would do another run later in the day, sometimes reps eg 10 x 400 around 60s. He race prolifically so didn't need to do much speedwork. On Sundays he usually hammered out a 27 to 35 km run in the steep forests of the Dandenongs.
So yes, the often hard one hour run is something common to Musyoki and Clarke but Ron had a second run. Interestingly though, as I said, he did not consider that run part of his training and told me he'd have been "exact;y the same runner if (he) didn't do it." So maybe you could say he was like Musyoki and just did the hour most days.
Interesting HRE this Ron told you he believed he had been the same runner without his morning runs 5-6 miles. The majority of top runners do and did double sessions daily but we have many examples prowed it's doable to reach the top on singel daily runs. It's just we can't compare the outcome of singel runs VS doubles daily when it comes to runners e.g Kipchoge because he has done doubles all the time.But one interesting example is Yuki Kawauchi who ran 2:08 marathon on singles and won Boston and used his pricemoney to train fulltime. After the change to doubles he never came close to a sub 2:10 again and he decided to switch back to his " amateur" training on just singles again. It didn't take long before he ran a new PB 2:07 at the Marathon. 🧙♂️🎅🇸🇪
So yes, the often hard one hour run is something common to Musyoki and Clarke but Ron had a second run. Interestingly though, as I said, he did not consider that run part of his training and told me he'd have been "exact;y the same runner if (he) didn't do it." So maybe you could say he was like Musyoki and just did the hour most days.
Interesting HRE this Ron told you he believed he had been the same runner without his morning runs 5-6 miles. The majority of top runners do and did double sessions daily but we have many examples prowed it's doable to reach the top on singel daily runs. It's just we can't compare the outcome of singel runs VS doubles daily when it comes to runners e.g Kipchoge because he has done doubles all the time.But one interesting example is Yuki Kawauchi who ran 2:08 marathon on singles and won Boston and used his pricemoney to train fulltime. After the change to doubles he never came close to a sub 2:10 again and he decided to switch back to his " amateur" training on just singles again. It didn't take long before he ran a new PB 2:07 at the Marathon. 🧙♂️🎅🇸🇪