Hi
I am a 29 year old male who qualified for boston with a 3:07 pr
Mr Canova: Would you coach me? How much it will cost me?
Thanks
Hi
I am a 29 year old male who qualified for boston with a 3:07 pr
Mr Canova: Would you coach me? How much it will cost me?
Thanks
Dude, you're not semi-pro. Even if you're a woman you're not semi-pro with a 3:07 marathon.
I think anyone who knows track would find it EXCITING to be coached by Canova, but would it be EFFECTIVE?
Going by your marathon PR, Canova works with elites who are racing and workout out at paces roughly TWO MINUTES PER MILE faster than you. They likely do twice your weekly mileage or more. Why do you think this would be a good fit?
There are dozens if not hundreds of coaches who work with runners of your level (which is only a bit slower than my level - 2:55) all the time, with consistent results. Why not work with one of them?
How much income does a semipro 3:07 marathoner make? I'd stop looking for a coach and get an agent.
Mr. Canova has, if I'm not mistaken, stated on these boards that his primary reason for only coaching elites is because only the elites can dedicate the time and effort required to handle his training methods, which are both voluminous and intense. Also, most sub-elites lack the lifetime aerobic base required to be able to handle his training. Most of his athletes have run thousands of miles more by the time they are 18 than many of our pros have in their whole lives (that may be hyperbolic, but not by much).
8/10, 10/10 if RC bites.
[quote]KaChing! wrote:
How much income does a semipro 3:07 marathoner make? /quote]
It depends what their job is.
dude how could u be so stupid, 3:07, thats hilarious!
i've run 3:47 and 1:51 and i wouldn't even be so stupid as to as mr. Canova to coach me tho im currently in the best shape of my life
that dude coaches 3:30/1:44 types, and kenyans at that
7/10
I lol'd
xrunner wrote:
Hi
I am a 29 year old male who qualified for boston with a 3:07 pr
Mr Canova: Would you coach me? How much it will cost me?
Thanks
E-mail me directly, and we can see if it will work.
renato canovo wrote:
xrunner wrote:Hi
I am a 29 year old male who qualified for boston with a 3:07 pr
Mr Canova: Would you coach me? How much it will cost me?
Thanks
E-mail me directly, and we can see if it will work.
ahhahhahahahaa
First of all, that post above was NOT from Renato. I do know Renato, and I have talked with him in person about training. He's a great man, like a great college professor, very kind, caring and academic. I don't know if he'd coach you or not, since he's extremely busy, but if you found him at a road race or track meet, I am sure that he'd talk to you.
Second, yes 3:07 is not "semi-pro" but it is an honorable time for a marathon. I can tell you that I am almost as proud of my slowest time in the marathon (3:09 in Paris 2007) as my fastest time (2:18 in Berlin 2002). Why? Because I finished the race 9 weeks after achilles surgery. The day before the race I thought that I would jog to 15km and drop.
Third, Mr. Canova has posted extensively on letsrun and via his postings, emails and talking with him in person, he has greatly influenced my own training. I suggest that you just read his posts on here and then adapt the basic philosophies of periodization and specificity of training to your situation.
Jason
Jason, that's a nice post, but this is a very funny thread.
Good luck in Pyongyang.
MAYEROFF wrote:
Second, yes 3:07 is not "semi-pro" but it is an honorable time for a marathon. I can tell you that I am almost as proud of my slowest time in the marathon (3:09 in Paris 2007) as my fastest time (2:18 in Berlin 2002). Why? Because I finished the race 9 weeks after achilles surgery. The day before the race I thought that I would jog to 15km and drop.
Mayeroff, you've always seemed like a pretty cool dude, but WTF does this have to do with anything going on in this thread other than to point out that you can run the OP's PR after Achilles surgery?
I admire your desire to be coached by one of the best and that perhaps you are willing to commit to his harsh training schedules. Perhaps you should first join a decent local club and get coached to a better standard and then you might be better equipped to face Canova's regimes.
You know he demands total dedication and sacrifices in the name of running?
yep... he's a hobby jogger wrote:
dude how could u be so stupid, 3:07, thats hilarious!
i've run 3:47 and 1:51 and i wouldn't even be so stupid as to as mr. Canova to coach me tho im currently in the best shape of my life
yeah but 3:07 is faster than 3:47
MAYEROFF wrote:
Mr. Canova has posted extensively on letsrun and via his postings, emails and talking with him in person, he has greatly influenced my own training.
Do you run faster now than before?
The 3:47 is for 1500 meters. That is worth almost an hour faster than you ran for a marathon. If you think you could even come close to doing Renato's training weeks with 3:09 marathon fitness, you need a reality check.
coach d wrote:
The 3:47 is for 1500 meters. That is worth almost an hour faster than you ran for a marathon. If you think you could even come close to doing Renato's training weeks with 3:09 marathon fitness, you need a reality check.
sorry forgot the dude is a hobby jogger so he can't see the correlation of my times and what guys (kenyans) Canova coaches
To help him out.. those are my 1500m and 800m times not full marathon and half marathon times LOL
coach d wrote:
The 3:47 is for 1500 meters. That is worth almost an hour faster than you ran for a marathon.
so he ran 1500 meters in almost 4 hours
that's not very good because i ran a whole marathon faster than that
xrunner wrote:
coach d wrote:The 3:47 is for 1500 meters. That is worth almost an hour faster than you ran for a marathon.
so he ran 1500 meters in almost 4 hours
that's not very good because i ran a whole marathon faster than that
And .... with that the thread is dead. Sorry folks, the show's over. xrunner has just revealed to us that his appearance as a master troller was just a facade. We had some laughs, felt that perhaps we were in the presence of genius, but now we must go home with that pit in our stomachs of wondering if the virtuosos of yesteryear will ever grace these message boards with their talent again.