Hiring Japanese Marathon Coaches

Wake up tommorrow morning at 5am. At 6am go out running for 1 hour at 8 minutes per mile. DO this EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 4 MONTHS.

Eat a load of raw fish after your morning jog.

At 11am, go out for about 10-20 km, again about 7-8min. per miles. Again, repeat this workout everyday.

At 4pm, select from the following workouts:

(1) 10x2000 meters, 2 min. rest

(2) 15x1000, 1min. rest.

(3) 40 km at 3;30per km.

(4) 30 km at 3;30per km.

(5) 2x5000 at 15;00 each.

Enjoy. Jason

That is a great link! He ran around 140-170mi per week. I think this is the kind of training that can develop 14:00 type guys into world-class marathoners... Impressive.

Thanks Hodgie.

Japanese training. I've looked at the training of the Japanese guy. I would think only Morris and Lawson have done anything as extreme as this. And not coincidentally they are the only Americans other than KK to break 2:10 since Kempainen.

The interesting component is the walks. I've always gone on the theory that you would benefit from being completely off your feet at all times not running. I wonder if these are planned in the training but only occur when he was too fatigued to do a planned running session.

If he ran 14:21 in high school that's major talent but to see that he ran only 13:36 and 28:40 and hit a 2:06 marathon is impressive. Maybe there should be a more organized and concerted effort to persuade our 28:20 to 29:00 collegiate 10k guys to immediately move into a program like this the second they graduate. Or at least encourage them.

Everyone should read Hodgie's links as there are also links to Bordin's and Seko's training. The Japanese do a lot of miles and a lot of it at marathon effort. Morris I believe is quoted somewhere as saying 2-3 times a week they did longish workouts/runs at marathon effort.

Alan