Solinksy Training

We know he prefers mile repetes exp- 4xMile at about 64 seconds per lap. Mileage is probably around 100 miles a week at 5:40 pace.

I guarantee he runs more than 100 miles a week.

5:40 is pretty quick

you know nothing.

According to a recent interview he did, he does his easy runs between 5:30 and 5:50 pace. 5:40 may be quick, but so is 12:55.

Letsrun Junkie wrote:

5:40 is pretty quick

I've put in 150-170 mile weeks most of it at that pace. It should be a walk in the park for Solinsky.

He recently tweeted that he has averaged 96 miles per week this year

I'm pretty sure he does that Badgers Miles thing where they log every easy run at 7 min pace, no matter how fast they were actually going. That'd make his actual mileage substantially higher than he has it recorded.

Ibmacc wrote:

He recently tweeted that he has averaged 96 miles per week this year

Quick math gives around 118.5 average at 5:40 pace.

malmo wrote:

Letsrun Junkie wrote:

5:40 is pretty quick

I've put in 150-170 mile weeks most of it at that pace. It should be a walk in the park for Solinsky.

Then why weren't you faster?

oh. wrote:

malmo wrote:

I've put in 150-170 mile weeks most of it at that pace. It should be a walk in the park for Solinsky.

Then why weren't you faster?

I'd say Malmo was pretty fast in his day.

Just added up my mileage 4 the year and the total so far is 2,905. That's averaging that's averaging just over 96 miles per week. Maybe next year I can get 100

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/2pvrje

One of the things he's mentioned in the past is long tempo runs--up to 15 miles. It's (originally) coming from Lagat, and everybody's doing it, it seems. Similar comment from Anna Pierce earlier this year.

Who would have guessed that a large amount of quality aerobic training would make one good at running??

Seriously though, it sounds like his training is hard and simple. Run fast and run a lot...the way it was meant to be done.

oh. wrote:

Then why weren't you faster?

I don't understand your question. Neither do you.

According to his twitter it looks like they are badger miles.

@chrissolinsky, are those 2,905 all badger miles?

6:47 PM Jul 28th via web

@maxstorms yes sir, they are! I use nothing but Badger miles.

6:49 PM Jul 28th via UberTwitter in reply to maxstorms

http://twitter.com/ChrisSolinsky

TheElephant wrote:

Who would have guessed that a large amount of quality aerobic training would make one good at running??

Seriously though, it sounds like his training is hard and simple. Run fast and run a lot...the way it was meant to be done.

back when Bob Kennedy was top dog he said that he ran about 6:00 miles -- and everyone called that "hammering" -- Solinsky is marginally faster than BK. In terms of comparing your 5k pace to your training pace, we can't really differentiate between BK and CS as Chris has had a breakthrough year JUST THIS year and Bob was sub-13:10 for so many years in a row.

But my point is this: a decent-guideline for training pace that I have seen is 1:40-slower-than your 5k race pace. Solinsky is right at 4:10 per MILE for the 5k and so 5:40 to 5:50 is NOT FAST it is NORMAL.

It seems fast to some of us because that is your hard run pace. But keep in mind, he is the first American ever to be a legit 13:00/27:00 guy. Alberto Salazar talked about it way back in 1985 and Bob Kennedy was targeting it around 2000, but Chris is AN ACTUAL sub-27/sub-13 runner.

So if your easy runs are at 6:40 ... they should be ... if you are about 3:00 slower than CS at 5k. And his easy runs at 5:40 are not "fast" ... they are easy.

malmo wrote:

I've put in 150-170 mile weeks most of it at that pace. It should be a walk in the park for Solinsky.

How many sub 27 10k's have you run?

Malmo- there is an emphasis, it seems, on easy, recovery days now. I believe you when you say that you ran heavy mileage at 5:40 pace. I remember, at my own mediocre level, taking "easy" days only when I was dog tired from so many hard days.

Do you think the easy days are necessary? I mean, I knew guys who could run under 31:00 for 10K and they didn't take easy days either. I remember guys hammering every day.

By the way- you were plenty fast and would be among the world's best today.

Some of these younguns don't get how different it was back then- track were slower, diet was much different, shoe technology, etc made us all a little slower than we would be today.

That's the point jackass.