Is there a way to train for both spring marathons and track without getting injured? Maybe alternate training days or do long runs in the morning and "speed work" in the afternoon?
Is there a way to train for both spring marathons and track without getting injured? Maybe alternate training days or do long runs in the morning and "speed work" in the afternoon?
What track events? If you're talking the 100m and marathon, then you may have conflicting interests
Just train for a marathon on the track. Settled.
probably only the 3000. I play lacrosse so I would only be able to run a few races but I'd want to do well in them.
Frank Shorter trained year round as a 5k track runner and also did marathons(he was strongest as a marathoner, and at times one of the top 5 in the world in the 10k).
He did speed workouts twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday. And a long run on Sundays of 2 hours or 20 miles(which ever came first). And he ran 10 miles in the morning and 10 in the afternoon most days. Anywhere from 120-170 miles in a week with most weeks around 130-140.
Go to his wikipedia page if you wanna know whether or not this worked for him.
xenonscreams wrote:
Just train for a marathon on the track. Settled.
This^^ a marathon on a track is only like 98 more laps than a 3000. You could even get lapped and come back for the win. No Sweat
Ryan Vail's recent training surprised me. It included many 200s at the start and then a little bit of maintenance with them doing 200m hills. He did many repeat miles for intervals. Doing this he managed to keep some top end speed.
Then there is Paul Tergat. His training includes an absurd amount of really short speedwork leading up to his races. He was mostly an aerobic monster doing daily doubles. Much of his speed came from doing dozens of 1 minute fast, 1 minute slow. I recall these from the book I believe Jurg Wirz wrote about him. He did other more traditional speedwork, but his training schedules gave me the impression that he was less race specific than we might think and that his raw aerobic ability and raw speed were what made him capable from 10k-marathon. Granted, his aerobic was done at a pretty good clip and his fartleks were no joke.
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