Train Hard Win Easy The Kenyan Way: Some Embellishment

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Vipam

Funny.

Vipam,

Those are some impressive training times you have listed in this thread. What are your pr's - I couldn't find you in the Statman's rankings list.

You wouldn't find me in any list! I started

running because I always loved running! In my brief

career I never got the niche of competition-I just loved

running! Honestly, I was a SERIOUS underachiever in

track competition. My personal best should have been

much better from the training I was doing; however, my

pr's were:

200m: 21.8 (squad meet)

800 1:53.7

8k 26min high (x-country) only race I feel I really

competed in!

10miles 57min low (training run)

I feel I have unfinished business in track and field and

I currently returned to training to see if I can run sub 1:50 and go from there! I should have run at least 1:45.9 - 1:46.1 like my training mate Douglas Kalembo! Now that

I have overcame my loathe of competition, I want to see

how good I can be-Hopefully my best days are yet to come!

After hearing of Ted Aredis 714 pound bench press:

American: "That is pretty strong, but hell, I benched 1/2 that as a HS footballer.

Kenyan: "The man is some sort of mythological giant race of godman."

So if the Kenyan just had a better attitude he could bench 714? Nope.

People are going to be encouraged to work at thsoe things which work has shown to do some good. For all the attitude and and hard work, few Nandi will ever bench 400 pounds, much less 714 (I would almost say none but there are statistical outliers in any population). They can have all the steroids they want. It won't happen.

Your example was the most simplistic kind of thinking. Does it occur to you that maybe people have better attitudes precisely because their hard work has shown results? And is it mutually exclusive that a person who sees Tergat's times and says "I must run faster" can't also be gifted and on drugs?" People aren't one thing or another.

I would be willing to bet Mourhit had a great attitude and he was also on drugs.

>>He gives training schedules of some of the runners running hard SEVEN DAYS OF THE WEEK.

>>"I went for 10km in the morning. Then I would do intervals before lunch. I would run hills in the afternoon and a distance run in the evening."

Are these such difficult?

High school basketball players sometimes train from 9:00 in the morning to 9:00 in the evening in the camp in long vacation,don't they?

I have trained 8 hours or 9 hours a day doing running or full weight aerobike(though it's not difficult if you get used to) seven days a week.Trust me.It's not difficult if you get used to and eat much and are stout.

Wow ,I could once train 8 times a day,8 km?~4,16km ?~1 and full weight aerobike 1 hour or less or much ?~3.

Of course intensity are different at all.And I may think brisk training is much much more effective .But after all,I was nowhere near decent runner and they are pro.

I have trained X

I had been training O

I interviwed Jack Bacheler a while back. He said after base training he would do this before competing in an important marathon.

4-5 weeks with Galloway and Shorter in Vail

6:30 am 10-12 miles

nap

lunchtime 4-5 miles

late afternoon 10-15 miles of long intervals

They seemed to manage 3 per day. Bacheler said occasionally Shorter would sneak behind their back and go for a fourth near midnight .

I had the good fortune to travel to the KIM camp in Nyahuru (9000ft) in March of 2001. Campers included marathoners -Osoro, Kiprotich, Rutto (masters), Chelanga, Maritim,Kipnock, Nyangatia (coach for marathoners) and Kiptanui (coach for MD guys). Boaz was there as a kid trying to learn. Unpaid, for the record.

They howled at Tanser's book. Claimed they had never met the guy. Who knows? I've heard he is a fine person, so no slander intended, but these guys trained thrice daily SOMETIMES. An easy run at dawn, quality at ten, ridiculously easy shuffle at 5pm (41 min for 8k !). No distractions, lots of rest and lounging, and team commraderie for three months. They never did two hard sessions in a day.

Nice, generous, unassuming guys.

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I have the impression that the Armed Forces camp is the group with three trainings per day. But, only for a short period. When they are training to make a national team or to beat Geb. Take your pick. Is it drugs or training? No drug busts, so it must be training. Chelanga is with the Fila group. What is Kipnock?