Radcliffe training

Sounds like a difficult question. Maybe this is easier: You run 15 x 400m @ 68 pace with 40 sec recovery, but with 2min recovery after every five. How fast can you race a 5000m then?

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Sounds like a difficult question. Maybe this is easier: You run 15 x 400m @ 68 pace with 40 sec recovery, but with 2min recovery after every five. How fast can you race a 5000m then?

Are these standing recoveries (or laying down), or running at 5:20 mile pace?

Jogging - probably 7 min / mile pace.

Last time I checked she had to *get out* of athletics so why the interest in her training?

Everyone knows she just sleeps in a bubble pumping crap all day and dreaming about how she going to destroy her next victim. Don't they?

Does anyone know how fast she could do 10 or 15 400m reps with 'X' recovery? Face it ... this applies to many male competitive runners.

Supposedly she trains over an 8 day cycle, with the 8th day as complete rest, though I have read that she runs over a 7 day cycle with the seventh day as rest, so its up to you which one you believe. Also she runs 120-130 mile weeks year round, even throughout the track season when racing below distance at 3k/5k. In the build up to a marathon this mileage will rise to 150-160 per week. This is mainly run at a good tempo with very little slow running, she says that almost all of her running is at sub 6.00 miling, and closer to 5.30's. Incorporated into these weeks are track sessions and tempo runs aswell as road sessions. If she is doing this over a 6 day period its amazingly impressive, it means in the marathon build up she is running around 25 miles per day, inclusive of sessions aswell as weights and circuits. Apparently she also sleeps 12 hours every night and also has a two hour nap every afternoon. On her rest day she does no running at all.

It's quite obvious a lot of what PR does is exaggerated.

For example doing 3x 4000m at 14:55 pace, with 1/2 the workout at 13:10 pace.

So why isn't she breaking 14 minutes for 5k?

If someone thinks it's possible to do a workout like that twice a week for 3 years and not break 14 minutes for 5k and 29 minutes for 10k, I'd like to hear the reasons why not.

The supposed "Paula" posted and then was quickly deleted. This same Paula, or someone who is delusional enough to believe she is Paula, has kept me updated on he training,etc. I'll ask this mystery person if she minds me forwarding her advice/program to the board.

For example, she tells me that she believes the body need 50-60 hours to recover from a hard wkt. she alternates "boring weeks" and exciting weeks," always does easy fartlek before track days, and never runs pyramidwkts for a marathon, only for track, and so on.

Maybe Weldon can tell me if this mystery poster is the real deal.

Does anyone no what 'Zoids' do? I got one in my back yard. I sprayed it but it just shakes violenty and demands: Who is your god of running? Who is your god of running? I try to say P. Radcliffe. X, Scuntforpe, England, but it triuaggggghg fuka sgaaaaargh waunkkk .............................................................................................

lotta conjecture dunes runner, no evidence (at all) to defend your oblique implications

guessin oregon dunes.

The schedule does seem torturous, I know that they say she has built to this gradually, but there is nobody in the world male or female who can maintain this level of training year round and perform ona wotrld class level at everything from 3k to marathon in the process.

I dont know about this poser van,

but,

I do easy fatleks at 130-145 heart beat a day before track workouts. What an coincidence!

karangasem.