According to the IAAF article about his marathon buildup: "Most significantly, [Bekele] reveals he has included a three-hour run each week in preparation for the Marathon." That's gotta be a run of ~30 miles, every week!
According to the IAAF article about his marathon buildup: "Most significantly, [Bekele] reveals he has included a three-hour run each week in preparation for the Marathon." That's gotta be a run of ~30 miles, every week!
And... I forgot to post the link. Here it is: http://www.iaaf.org/news/feature/kenenisa-bekele-marathon-debut-ethiopia-runni
That's not surprising. Top ultrarunners do 5-8 hour runs per week.
afdssda wrote:
That's not surprising. Top ultrarunners do 5-8 hour runs per week.
.....therefore, they are doing about the same distance!
bekele is a stupid idiot. long slow distance makes long slow runner.
UNLESS HE IS DOING A 3 HOUR RACE, HE IS WASTING HIS TIME AND DESTROYING HIS KNEES BY RUNNING FOR 3 HOURS.
the more pointless miles he runs, the shorter his running career will be. I hope he has already see a doctor about his future knee and hip replacements. in the future he will be sitting around watching all the low mileage guys like lagat and webb still competing at the world level, and he will be bed ridden with tons of arthritic problems and wishing he didn't do all those pointless miles and useless heart beats.
physiologist. wrote:
bekele is a stupid idiot. long slow distance makes long slow runner.
UNLESS HE IS DOING A 3 HOUR RACE, HE IS WASTING HIS TIME AND DESTROYING HIS KNEES BY RUNNING FOR 3 HOURS.
the more pointless miles he runs, the shorter his running career will be. I hope he has already see a doctor about his future knee and hip replacements. in the future he will be sitting around watching all the low mileage guys like lagat and webb still competing at the world level, and he will be bed ridden with tons of arthritic problems and wishing he didn't do all those pointless miles and useless heart beats.
1/10 you gave yourself away by bringing up Webb.
physiologist. wrote:
bekele is a stupid idiot. long slow distance makes long slow runner.
5:08 pace for his last 3 hour run (35 miles)
LFD NOT LSD wrote:
physiologist. wrote:bekele is a stupid idiot. long slow distance makes long slow runner.
5:08 pace for his last 3 hour run (35 miles)
Umm, no.
Geb was running 30's at least every other week during his buildups for the WR. Pretty sure this is all on dirt.
Live not on eviL wrote:
According to the IAAF article about his marathon buildup: "Most significantly, [Bekele] reveals he has included a three-hour run each week in preparation for the Marathon." That's gotta be a run of ~30 miles, every week!
That's nothing new. Sammy Wanjiru's routine long run was like that, too, 3 hours of slow pace in the Japanese mountain.
this is too generous:) bringing up Webb gives a penalty
of -2. hence -1/10.
yyy wrote
Hey! Where have you been!? :D
That would give him the 50k world record by 7+ minutes. There is no doubt in my mind that he could break the 50k world record (Josh Cox only missed it by 7 seconds), but I doubt that he's breaking it by 7 minutes in training.
LFD NOT LSD wrote:
physiologist. wrote:bekele is a stupid idiot. long slow distance makes long slow runner.
5:08 pace for his last 3 hour run (35 miles)
Raptured wrote:
That would give him the 50k world record by 7+ minutes. There is no doubt in my mind that he could break the 50k world record (Josh Cox only missed it by 7 seconds), but I doubt that he's breaking it by 7 minutes in training.
LFD NOT LSD wrote:5:08 pace for his last 3 hour run (35 miles)
Sorry, bad math. Would actually be by about 3-4 minutes. Point still stands.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA youre so dumb lol clearly you dont understand the physiology of endurance performance. long bouts change your metabolism to be more efficient for endurance events. running 3 hours for a 2 something hour race is smart its called the overload principle idiot. plus he doesnt run on hard surfaces so he wont be needing an orthopedic surgeon
imaginary wrote:
Live not on eviL wrote:According to the IAAF article about his marathon buildup: "Most significantly, [Bekele] reveals he has included a three-hour run each week in preparation for the Marathon." That's gotta be a run of ~30 miles, every week!
That's nothing new. Sammy Wanjiru's routine long run was like that, too, 3 hours of slow pace in the Japanese mountain.
BTW, Wanjiru's LR pace, according to what he said in an interviwe, was ~8min/mile.
Bekeles English isn't that great. I can imagine that some of that "interview" has been taken out of context ... and suddenly an "up to 3h" becomes "always 3h".
Also, that article made it sound like he has no clue where to run the Marathon. Mentions Dubai, Berlin, NYC ... is he really training for a Marathon right now without even knowing if he will race in spring or fall?
nopenopenope wrote:
HAHAHAHAHAHA youre so dumb lol clearly you dont understand the physiology of endurance performance. long bouts change your metabolism to be more efficient for endurance events. running 3 hours for a 2 something hour race is smart its called the overload principle idiot. plus he doesnt run on hard surfaces so he wont be needing an orthopedic surgeon
Ok, so why not 4 hours, or 5? Obviously at a certain point, the recovery time you need afterwards does more harm to your training than the run did good. This is something that Bekele (allegedly) does every week and he presumably has other hard efforts in there too. That's a lot. And I never said he shouldn't be doing it but it is most certainly noteworthy, if not controversial.
At one point Ed Whitlock was running 3hrs EVERY day (singles) - I recall that he had a streak of 21 days in a row.