WINTER TRAINING

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....RUN THE FIRST MILE UNDER 4MIN. PACE OF A TIME TRIAL OF 10MILES???????????!???????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHSAHAHAHAHA

It's a session he did himself and he was fairly successful.

Funniest damn thing all day!!!!!!!!!!

Jerry you where built to run like this.Some people look up to you and listen to your advice.You could run 10 miles in under 60 minutes easy.You could be tell a 80 minute 10 mile runner to basically run a 80 minute time trial.This is very stupid advice.Everyone on here is not a elite runner and encouragement will be far better.I think Jerry could of ran just as fast off of 60 miles per week than he did off of 300.

he couldnt even break 4 for a open mile. why would he try to do it the first mile of a training run?

hey does anyone actually train under him through email? just curious about how thats going?

>>>OK:

You have 10 weeks before the start of spring track. Between now and then you have to get ready for a great spring. What to do:``<< Get to work?:)

%%>>>First, start out with 4 weeks of overdistance training. Get as many miles in as you can. Don't count miles, just run every chance you get; Two, three times a day!>>>Second, cut down your running load to 10 miles a day for 3 weeks. On 5 of those days still run easy pace overdistance kind stuff, but on two days each week for 3 weeks do a time trial over 10 miles. Start extremely hard and try break 4 minutes for the first mile to get yourself into severe oxygen debt as soon as you can. Then keep going hard! Time yourself at 1 mile and several spots along your course. Next time you race it, you want to be better at the mile mark and at each of the spots you time yourself. When you are 1/2 mile from the finish jump into an all-out sprint and fly all the way to the finish line hard! Every time you run this time-trial you want your time to be faster.>>Finally, for the final 3 weeks, cut out the time-trial and in its place find a 1/2 mile to 3/4 mile straight stretch you can race without stopping (no traffic lights, etc.) Start at one end and sprint just as hard as your wimpy legs will take you ALL THE WAY TO THE END!! When you approach the end, don't stop, but go into a jog and jog back to the start to recover. When you get back to the start turn around and do the same sprint again and again (3 repeats). Do this workout twice a week in place of the hard ten mile time-trials you were doing.>>NOW you are ready to have a great spring.

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You know if I were 35 years younger I would give this some serious thought, certainly if I tried this I would have been ready to win outright that old annual Chandler 8 miler I think they still have every Good Friday in Vancouver. Imagine beating the shorts off runners like Tom Howard etc? :)

The link you listed doesn't work.

Hmmm the software didn't accept my insertions, let's do this again;

First four weeks: 120 - 140 mpw nothing fast or hard, drink lots of water & have lots of carbs.

Second 3 weeks: 70 +/- mpw with, say Sat. & Wed. an ttempt to run a PR for 10 miles, then try to beat that each Saturday & Wednesday. Ouch, now this IS work.

Third 3 weeks: Sat. & Wed. try to beat your old high school PR for the 800 m you once ran on the track.

Well getting my lifetime PR for 10 miles I once ran 32 years ago from 54 min. to possibly 53? Getting my 2:05 800 m time down to 2:03?

Then the one week taper for that old 8 mile road race, all this training could have improved my placing up to the first 8? Realistically Tom Howard was one of Canada's premier marathoners, a 2:13 PR., 2:14 in 1974 for the Van. marathon.

When Sammy Kipketer broke the world road 5k record he ran the first mile in 3,59 and he is waayyy faster then Gerry Lindgren ever was, so the above advise is fairly stupid!

Tom Howard ran 2:13:23 in Boston in 1975 for fourth place behind B. Rodgers, S. Hoag and T. Fleming and just ahead of Ron Hill.

It must be great to be young and stupid. Of course Gerry is not telling you to literally run a 4 minute pace. He is telling you to run much faster than you should to teach the body to run long periods under stress. If you throw out your preconceived limits of how fast you can run, you may achieve greatness as he did.

i didn't know peoples reading comprehension was so bad.

he didn't mean for you to split a 4min mile. He's talking about going out for your 10mile run so hard that the whole thing hurts and you really get better. Your first 200 may be 28, the 400 58 and then it prob slows from there.

You must be as retarded as Gerry. How the hell are you suppose to complete 10 miles after going all out for 200-1600 meters?

Okay, he doesn't mean actually break 4, he means act like you're trying to.

Gerry always used to start any race at a sub 60 400 m pace then just hung on. Of course he slowed during the race, that was his style of racing. I saw him do this at an indoor meet, Vancouver, 1971. A 3000 m which was eventually won by a N.Z. runner, Kerry O'Brien.

Is that really Gerry L.? I see his posts now and again and he sounds... I want to be kind...a little...strange.

Yes it's Gerry and he has given me some training schedules and they work!!!

I am not banned anymore.

Yup wrote:

You must be as retarded as Gerry. How the hell are you suppose to complete 10 miles after going all out for 200-1600 meters?

As the goddess of victory says

"Just do it"