What are some good strava/instragran profiles to follow for someone wishing to study the training of elite runners?

These are some of the pros/semi-pros/collegians that post training details pretty reliably on strava: Ben True, Conner Mantz, Craig Engels, Dillon Maggard, Drew Bosley, Eric Holt, Harvey Nelson, Isaiah Harris, Jacob Thomson, Jake Smith, Joe Klecker, John Raneri, Keira D’Amato, Molly Seidel, Morgan Pearson, Robert Brandt, Rory Linkletter, Spencer Brown, Sydney Gidabuday.

Hey, thanks for the list; interesting...although I don't (yet) do Strava.

Someone really wanting to understand training wrote:

So, i want to study with more depth the training of elite runners, instead of just reading the same books with the same workouts over and over again. I want to see what they are really doing out there, but not to copy their workouts but to understand why they do what they do, in order to create my own personalized workouts ans not just doing 5x1mile w/1 rest, 16-20x 400m w/200m jog, 5-6x 1000m w/ 2min jog and etc etc.

But beyond sweat elite youtube channel I don't know where to look for, so please drop some profiles of elite athlew that I could follow, it would be much appreciated

Run Effect is good too, as is Sweat Elite. Tinman and even Spencer Brown have good stuff.

Strava and the like will just give you anecdotes about random runners training. I think you’re better off doing your current thing and studying training theories. A lot of pros and elites don’t post their good workouts because they want to keep it on the low what kind of shape they’re actually in.

Juice Springsteen wrote:

Strava and the like will just give you anecdotes about random runners training. I think you’re better off doing your current thing and studying training theories. A lot of pros and elites don’t post their good workouts because they want to keep it on the low what kind of shape they’re actually in.

Kind of agree and not agree. It is hard to see the philosophy by following runners on Strava, but over time it is possible to see what they do and it is always possible to get inspiration from single workouts and so on. So if you really are interested you need to read training literature that presents full training models and then you can dive into specific training aspects or forms.

If you like to follow the Ingebrigtsen model for a hobby jogger like big brother Ingebrigtsen doing 65 mpw towards HM (after 1.5 years of training he did 75 for HM) follow Kristoffer Ingebrigtsen. It is really plain and simple training that works, based on his HM pace... It is in Norwegian , but you can get the main info out of it.

Joe Klecker is a good follow on Strava, 10k Olympian and he has pertinent comments on all of his workouts. Jake Smith (2:11 Marathoner in pacing) is another good poster, shares lots of details and just joined NN running in Uganda so that could be interesting.

Just some unsolicited advice, I wouldn't follow an elite runner's strava for any reason other than interest and entertainment. The best way to understand training is really from the theory and listening to coaching interviews and reading their books. Strava doesn't offer the long term vision and periodization that coaching books and interviews give you. I'd recommend looking over Canova's posts here, they're a bit all over the place but you'll definitely gain knowledge looking for them. I believe someone compiled them into a pdf, so maybe you can look for that.