Christo Landry Talks Training: 150 Miles Week, 32 Mile Long Run

And if you'd like a more in depth view of my training, feel free to check out my website where I've been posting my running log. Christolandry.wordpress.com

Feel free to ask questions there (or here). I'll respond when I can. Time to turn the light out here.

Christo wrote:

Feel free to ask questions there (or here). I'll respond when I can. Time to turn the light out here.

Will you make the 2016 Olympic team? If so, in what event are you shooting for? Thanks, keep on running.

Christo wrote:

And if you'd like a more in depth view of my training, feel free to check out my website where I've been posting my running log. Christolandry.wordpress.com

Feel free to ask questions there (or here). I'll respond when I can. Time to turn the light out here.

Wow, sorry you had to deal with such a horrible interviewer. Lots of awkward, incomplete questions, some interrupting, it felt like you had to do the interview yourself. You did a great job with what you had to deal with!

Best wishes in ChiTown!

Christo, please describe you feelings about those 12x60 secs or 16x75 hills postes in you running log. Thanks in avance.

Best of luck in Chicago.

Slightly overtrained , fit yes without question ,meticulous yes , smart a big question , experimental coaching and training for an athlete and coach who have not been in this territory before. Sure its fun to blog about and talk theory and fantasize outcome because a person has run x milage.

Run Fast Christo , run smart.

Working Stiff wrote:

Wow, sorry you had to deal with such a horrible interviewer. Lots of awkward, incomplete questions, some interrupting, it felt like you had to do the interview yourself. You did a great job with what you had to deal with!

Typical Brojo hack "journalism". They are truly not cut out for interviewing or writing.

The interviewer was OK, but the jerky filming gave me a headache.

I highly recommend a tripod or monopod.

Good luck to Christo. 2:10 would be awesome.

long on the tooth wrote:

Slightly overtrained , fit yes without question ,meticulous yes , smart a big question , experimental coaching and training for an athlete and coach who have not been in this territory before. Sure its fun to blog about and talk theory and fantasize outcome because a person has run x milage.

Run Fast Christo , run smart.

Why?? Because he's addressing the marathon's last few miles & trained to be strong after mile 20?? Most everyone does long runs under 26 miles & most everyone slows after 20 miles.

ttc wrote:

long on the tooth wrote:

Slightly overtrained , fit yes without question ,meticulous yes , smart a big question , experimental coaching and training for an athlete and coach who have not been in this territory before. Sure its fun to blog about and talk theory and fantasize outcome because a person has run x milage.

Run Fast Christo , run smart.

Why?? Because he's addressing the marathon's last few miles & trained to be strong after mile 20?? Most everyone does long runs under 26 miles & most everyone slows after 20 miles.

If it was just a simple formula of adding more miles to run faster over the marathon distance it would be done , thats the problem. Its far more complex.

There is no real physiological principle that shows running over 26 miles in a single training run will allow you to run faster. Its theory , its building a comfort zone of belief , if I run this much then this will happen, run 150 miles a week and become world class ? Clearly our american system of coaching faster elite marathoners is at fail. My attitude it lets examine what it going to take to really run faster , others around the world are , why cannot we be a part of the faster global elite ?

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If it was just a simple formula of adding more miles to run faster over the marathon distance it would be done , thats the problem. Its far more complex.

There is no real physiological principle that shows running over 26 miles in a single training run will allow you to run faster. Its theory , its building a comfort zone of belief , if I run this much then this will happen, run 150 miles a week and become world class ? Clearly our american system of coaching faster elite marathoners is at fail. My attitude it lets examine what it going to take to really run faster , others around the world are , why cannot we be a part of the faster global elite ?[/quote]

Did it ever occur to you that he knows a little more about what his body needs for this event than you do? Each runner is an individual. It may be that the value of the overdistance run is more psychological than physical: giving a runner a sense of what running hard at the very end will feel like, without the stress, in training, of actually running marathon pace for the marathon distance. I ran my strongest half marathons when I'd run 18 miles with a fast finish in training. Only 15 miles as a long run and I didn't do as well maintaining a hard pace in the final 5K. So Landry's training here makes perfect sense to me.

He's trying to up his game. He's experimenting. 150 miles is a lot, but for somebody hoping for a big breakthrough, it doesn't strike me as clearly in excess.

“You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.”

-Frank Shorter

christo talk waaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much.

remember his 2'17 and 2'14 are almost women s time these days. Just chill Christo. and...run...

Hey Ben,

For my hill repeats I'm looking to put in somewhere around 90%-95% effort (100% would be losing control, all out, race type effort) on the way up. The emphasis here is that the entire workout is continuous, as soon as you hit the top of the hill you turn around and descend at a pace akin to your normal runs (no sprinter shuffle here). When you reach the bottom, it's an immediate turn around into the start of the next repeat. There are no stops during the workout and this keeps the heart-rate elevated. These are usually in place of a pace run (what most people identify as a tempo run) for the week. My feelings during the workout, I hate running up hill!

-Christo

Christo, how many days during the peak of your training did you run twice a day?Run smooth.

Christo wrote:

And if you'd like a more in depth view of my training, feel free to check out my website where I've been posting my running log. Christolandry.wordpress.com

Feel free to ask questions there (or here). I'll respond when I can. Time to turn the light out here.

Your clearly missing the point , he is experimenting in your own words , why not be a little more calculated , strategic rather than let's pile on some more miles and hope , experiment for a better outcome. Try and do more with less , the experiment of adding more and crossing over to diminishing returns seems not very smart.

"Im a 10,000 meter runner who runs marathons"

-Steve Jones

Then given that reply, 10K'ers could just run 40 mpw.

Of course Landry's experimenting. He's not all that experienced at the marathon yet. He'd be experimenting at 90-100 mpw too. So why not experiment at the level of mileage that most really top marathoners do?