Not that Athing Mu is focusing on the 1500, but I can’t imagine her training looks like anybody else’s in tonight’s field.
Not that Athing Mu is focusing on the 1500, but I can’t imagine her training looks like anybody else’s in tonight’s field.
20min incline walk on the treadmill, 10x10 Tabatha Sprints, 10min cooldown walk on treadmill, then gym. Repeat.
Compared to the rest of the field I guess significantly less weekly volume, probably no more than 40 miles a week. Likely lots of plyometrics and strength work. For workouts Id wager lots of 150s, 200s, 300s, etc. and some 1k to 1200m repeats. *maybe* some tempo runs but if any id guesss they’d be no more than 4 miles. Long run probably tops out at 10 miles, if that.
I would venture that it looks like old school Igloi training. Big volumes of varied reps carried out over a two hour period of time.
Igloi's runners rarely if ever went two hours. Spoke to Bob Schul many times and sessions though intense were about an hour.
4 x 200 with 2 minute walk between (3x week)
Strides the other days with warmup and cooldown
Dope very carefully
A syringe?
From Schul's wrote "...Running and Training" manual.
pg. 14. His advanced athletes did workouts totalling "12 and one-half miles of actual running. But more important, we have kept the heart rate up for approximately two and one-half hours."
On pg 20 he discusses "a typical Thursday workout with a race coming on Saturday" stating "this becomes a medium day, we still spend one and a half hours at the workout."