• no no no
      • RE: Mr. Renato Canova: Could You Please Answer a Question About Effective Ways to Improve the Lactate Threshold? 8/2/2005 6:01PM - in reply to no no no to you buddy
      • no no no
      • no no no to you buddy wrote:
        You misread Mr. Canova's post. It reads:

        "had a test running 1200m and 300m with an interval of 3 minutes, ALONE, with times of 2:47.8 / 36.1."

        Hence, he ran a 1200, took a 3 minute rest, and THEN ran a 36.1 300
        No, YOU misread Canova's post AND my post


        With the new name of Bashir, Nyaga went to Gulf Championships, and won in 3:37.37 beating Ramzi (3:37.41) with the last 300m in 36.8.
        Think before speaking.
    • agreed
      • RE: Mr. Renato Canova: Could You Please Answer a Question About Effective Ways to Improve the Lactate Threshold? 8/2/2005 6:01PM - in reply to Mr lactate
      • agreed
      • Renato, I enjoyed reading the article about your predictions for the World Championships and have some questions:

        1. Bekele, as great as he is, will have a challenge in the 10,000m. His teammate Sileshi Sihine ran 26:57 this year as was very upset. He can eventually challenge for the WR. He has the #4 time ever in the 5,000 with 12:47 and may be the most underrated runner out there today.

        He outkicked Gebrselassie last year in 26:39 and ran the last 100 meters in 12 seconds in that race. He has a great kick and the margin of victory for Bekele last year in Athens was large (4 seconds) only because when Sihine saw he would not catch him he eased off at the end.

        I think if Sihine comes in PR shape (he ran 26:57 2 months ago and has good training since) he can win with the right tactics. He is as aerobically strong as Bekele is; the only question is if he can remain with him in the last 200m.

        Watching him and Bekele racing, Sihine has a much easier looking stride. His leg does not kick up as high and he has a long stride merely based on the strength with which he pushed off the ground. Bekele has such a gigantic, fast stride that it is difficult to see where he can open it up. It already looks like he is sprinting throughout most of a 5,000m race.

        I agree that he is the favorite but I do not think others can be discounted so quickly. Sihine is there and Dinkessa was very close to him earlier in the year.


        2. Where is your runner Nicholas Kemboi? A phenomenal talent, one of the top 5 ever with 26:30 and he nearly beat Gebrselassie 2 years ago. But since then we have heard nothing of him and he is not on the WC team. Will he race again and what has happened to him?

        3. I'm not sure why Songkok is the 5K favorite. He has very good speed but will be racing Gebremariam, Bekele, Kipchoge, and Chebii. Craig Mottram has also beaten him. He has a 3:30 1500 but Mottram just ran a 3:48 mile and Songkok is no stronger than any of the others. Bekele ran 12:40 this year and there is no chance Songkok can run that fast right now.

        If it is a 13:00 race Bekele will be feeling much stronger (that is far off his PB) compared to Songkok who is still new at 5,000.

        Bekele also ran a 200 during his 5K win in Lausanne 2 years ago in 23-point. He has AMAZING finishing speed and can outkick Songkok depending on the pace.

        4. I am surprised Ezekiel Kemboi is named as a favorite because he has raced poorly this year. Shaheen will win easily but I hope to see him in the 5K as well. That would be a great double.
    • Underrated athletes
      • RE: Mr. Renato Canova: Could You Please Answer a Question About Effective Ways to Improve the Lactate Threshold? 8/2/2005 6:01PM - in reply to agreed
      • Underrated athletes
      • Sileshi Sihine is underrated but so are John Kibowen and Laban Rotich. They both ran 3:47 in the Oslo Dream Mile behind El Guerrouj but rarely get credit. Kibowen is 36 and still winning Golden League 5,000's.

        Renato, do you have the training of Ngaya used to run 3:47?
    • 5K runner
      • RE: Mr. Renato Canova: Could You Please Answer a Question About Effective Ways to Improve the Lactate Threshold? 8/2/2005 6:01PM - in reply to dunes runner
      • 5K runner
      • well wrote:
        Renato:

        You wrote on an earlier page that you discourage someone with a slower PR--say 17 minutes for 5,000--running a lot of mileage. But how else can someone become fast except by increasing training?
        dunes runner wrote:
        Run more at race pace.
        It's the middle of July. For a HS runner looking to improve, running at race pace right now would be disastrous.

        As Lance Armstrong's coach Chris Carmichael said, you need to build the engine first. Speedwork is not a "base." The aerobic fitness alone must chronologically come first and that by itself should make race times faster.
    • I'm not sure about all that
      • RE: Mr. Renato Canova: Could You Please Answer a Question About Effective Ways to Improve the Lactate Threshold? 8/2/2005 6:01PM - in reply to agreed
      • I'm not sure about all that
      • I think you overanalyzed things a bit there, and WAY overhyped Sihine. Lets look at the FACTS:

        * Sihine was upset when he ran 26:57 because he said he was going to make an attempt at the WR. Yeah, when you say that and miss it by NEARLY 40 seconds, then yeah, you probably SHOULD BE upset.

        * Bekele is 30 seconds faster then Sihine this year at 10k and has a PR that is nearly 20 seconds faster than Sihine. And at 5k, Bekele is 10 seconds faster than Sihine. All those comparisons do not bode well for Mr Sihine.

        * If Sihine is in such great shape this year, WHY IS HE NOT RUNNING MORE RACES??? What else has he done besides that mediocre (for him) 26:57 ?

        * margins of victory in WC's 10k and Olympic 10k that last two years were NOT EVEN CLOSE between Bekele and Sihine. Bekele absolutely ran away from him, like he was standing still.

        * Your stride analysis is rather strange. Yes, Bekele does indeed look like he is "sprinting" the whole way already. But somehow that does not seem to hurt him when he needs to churn out a final 52/53 lap. And why would a "long stride" where one does not "kick up as high" translate into having a great kick later in the race?? Sounds like you are describing the stride of an Alan Culpepper or some other tall distance runner with tons of endurance but without lots of natural great speed. IN short, by looking at their strides, my conclusion would be the opposite of yours: maybe at a marathon, Sihine's less powerful, more efficient/grounded stride might win the day over Bekele, but NOT in a kick on a track race.

        Sihine is not in Bekele's league yet. Maybe someday.
    • easy answers
      • RE: Mr. Renato Canova: Could You Please Answer a Question About Effective Ways to Improve the Lactate Threshold? 8/2/2005 6:01PM - in reply to I'm not sure about all that
      • easy answers
      • I'm not sure about all that wrote:
        I think you overanalyzed things a bit there, and WAY overhyped Sihine. Lets look at the FACTS:

        * Sihine was upset when he ran 26:57 because he said he was going to make an attempt at the WR. Yeah, when you say that and miss it by NEARLY 40 seconds, then yeah, you probably SHOULD BE upset.
        He ran the 10K in Prague. Have you ever HEARD of Prague being a high class meet? He was the only big name there, the pacemakers screwed it up for him early so he was left out in the cold for a lot longer than he should have been, and I also seem to remember that it was raining.

        You toss in a few 66-67 second laps and he will subconsciously ease off knowing he's not going to get the record.

        This is a guy who ran his last 500 in 1:10 last year and in 2003 also ran his 2nd 5K in 13:10, again easing off once Gebrselassie and Bekele ran away from him.

        * Bekele is 30 seconds faster then Sihine this year at 10k and has a PR that is nearly 20 seconds faster than Sihine. And at 5k, Bekele is 10 seconds faster than Sihine. All those comparisons do not bode well for Mr Sihine.
        Again, Bekele ran a highly competitive 10K in a great meet, Hengelo, with Dinkessa clipping his heels the whole way.

        Sihine ran in a bad meet in the rain with no competition and bad pacemaking. As for Sihine's PB, Dinkessa came from nowhere to run 26:30. So did Renato's runner Kemboi when he ran 26:30. I am certain in good conditions with good competition Sihine would destroy his PB and run close to or under the WR. It seems you didn't see his 26:39. He looked extremely relaxed just following Geb. It was another WR attempt that fell off due to bad pacemaking. MAny pacemakers simply cannot go very long at 63 per lap, so Sihine's best chance at getting the WR is in a race with Bekele, Dinkessa, or Gebremariam. He ran his last 100 in that race in 12 seconds. You're not running at maximal capacity if you can finish that fast.


        * If Sihine is in such great shape this year, WHY IS HE NOT RUNNING MORE RACES??? What else has he done besides that mediocre (for him) 26:57 ?
        Because he's training. He got the evaluation of his fitness he wanted, was disappointed, and has no need of more races because he can return to Ethiopia and get all the testing of his shape he needs following Bekele around the track at 8,000 feet.

        Remember, these guys last year did a 7K time trial passing through 5K in 13:22! That's at 8,000 feet. Why would you need a European race to tell you you are in shape when you can do workouts like that. It's the same reason Bekele did not run Oslo and Rome even though he would probably have easily won the Million dollar Jackpot; Kostre wants those guys together making a strong push for Helsinki.

        * margins of victory in WC's 10k and Olympic 10k that last two years were NOT EVEN CLOSE between Bekele and Sihine. Bekele absolutely ran away from him, like he was standing still.
        In 2003 he was not the same runner he is today. In 2003 his 5K PB was 13:06, so running the 26:58 and 27:01 that he did was remarkable for someone with that 5,000 time.

        He crushed Bekele at the Ethiopian 5K running 13:35 to his 13:47. That makes him one of 3 athletes ever (Geneti and Chebii the other 2) to beat both Bekele and Gebrselassie.

        In Athens, again, watch the race. Bekele took off and immediately opened a gap down the straight. Sihine saw he was not coming back and so ran in strongly but not all-out. Had he really chased Bekele strongly it would have been closer. You underestimate the guy. See what happens at Helsinki if he is healthy and fit.

        There are very few athletes in the world who can, off 27 minute pace, take off and run 1:06 for the last 500. Sihine has a year more of training behind him and a better chance to respond to that tactic if Bekele uses it.

        * Your stride analysis is rather strange. Yes, Bekele does indeed look like he is "sprinting" the whole way already. But somehow that does not seem to hurt him when he needs to churn out a final 52/53 lap. And why would a "long stride" where one does not "kick up as high" translate into having a great kick later in the race?? Sounds like you are describing the stride of an Alan Culpepper or some other tall distance runner with tons of endurance but without lots of natural great speed. IN short, by looking at their strides, my conclusion would be the opposite of yours: maybe at a marathon, Sihine's less powerful, more efficient/grounded stride might win the day over Bekele, but NOT in a kick on a track race.
        Because he can keep the same speed as Bekele without using his full range of motion. If Bekele runs at 61 per lap kicking himself in the back, eating up ground, and really using his full range of motion, it seems like he is nearly maxed out. Even if he gets faster there is not much more he can do with that stride. It's about as long and fast as it will get.

        Sihine on the other hand has a more clipped, lesser stride that CAN be expanded with more training. He can open it up and get faster. Of course this is hypothetical, but it's merely an observation about potential. in absolute terms (# of seconds) I think Sihine can improve more than Bekele by a ways.

        Sihine is not in Bekele's league yet. Maybe someday.
        He said he's trying to beat him. He has once before and he's the next best these days at 10,000. If anyone can beat him, it's Sihine.
    • I'm not sure about all that
      • RE: Mr. Renato Canova: Could You Please Answer a Question About Effective Ways to Improve the Lactate Threshold? 8/2/2005 6:01PM - in reply to easy answers
      • I'm not sure about all that
      • I will not take the time to answer all your counterpoints (there are just too many), but let's leave it at this:

        Sihine is great no doubt, but he has YET to prove himself to be in Bekele's league, PERIOD. He can say all he wants, and predict all he wants, and you can make excuses for him all you want, and make analyses all you want, and claim that he ran X time for the final 100 of this race and X time for the final 500 of that race, but until he beats Bekele in a big race, or runs as fast as Bekele, he just ain't there yet. Beating him in one low key race in Ethiopia a few years back is something, but not that much. How many times has Bekele beaten Sihine on the track and in X-C? Dozens?? Probably something close to that.

        So.......Bekele will easily outkick him again, and you will say what this time? Sihine "eased off" again and that is why the margin was not close? Or will it be that Sihine was hurt or "not fit" ? Sihine is one of the greatest runners on the planet. But Bekele is the GREATEST EVER (in my book, and in many others). You don't see unseat the Greatest Ever unless you kick his butt a few times and break his records (as Bekele did to Geb). Talk is cheap.
    • dunes runner
      • RE: Mr. Renato Canova: Could You Please Answer a Question About Effective Ways to Improve the Lactate Threshold? 8/2/2005 6:01PM - in reply to 5K runner
      • dunes runner
      • 5K runner wrote:
        As Lance Armstrong's coach Chris Carmichael said, you need to build the engine first. Speedwork is not a "base." The aerobic fitness alone must chronologically come first and that by itself should make race times faster.
        Where do you see that I said to do speedwork?

        I didn't say anything about speedwork, one way or the other.

        Your message is bass-akwards.

        First you said to not run more at race pace, than you quote Carmichael saying basically the same thing that I did.