All I know he was trained in Japan under Kiyoshi Nakamura near the time of Toshihiko Seko. Any more info then that?
All I know he was trained in Japan under Kiyoshi Nakamura near the time of Toshihiko Seko. Any more info then that?
I do not listen to your preaching with my ears, but with my heart...
Wakiihuri to Nakamura
"In his prime, Wakiihuri won marathon races easily, which he attributed to an Oriental discipline picked up in Japan where he went to live, study and run from a youthful age of 17 in the early eighties. ...
Wakiihuri would for days on end have nothing to do in Japan but run, clocking about 1,200km every month. Many were the times he had no energy even to watch television and his only solace was listening to music. A few cassettes he had brought from home kept him going but he later started listening to Japanese music as his knowledge of the language improved."
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1200 kilometers a month is roughly 186 miles per week.
Douglas Wakihuri trained in Gainesville for a few years, near the end of his career. Main difference from the other Kenyans was that he ran 2 times/day, instead of 3. Did high mileage, with 30k tempo/time trials, long runs of 50k. Also on the track ocassionally for long (mile-5k) repeats. Ran more on the roads than trails.
tilastopaja says...
Wakiihuri was winner of the World Champs in Rome in 1987, second at Seoul Olympics in 1988, then winner of London 1989 with life time pb of 2:09:03, winning both Commonwealth Games and NY City marathons in 1990, also winner of the World Cup in 1995
run until you can't see straight. miles upon miles uopon miles. no shit. higher mileage (assuming his training was similar to seko) than you can dream of. i have the '88 seoul marathon on video and wakiihuru is so f***ing smooth the entire way it makes your head spin.