waddle:
Here is something Renato wrote about Billy Konchellah (an example of what he calls a "fast" 800 runner, in other words a 400-800 guy) and Steve Cram (an example of a "resistant" 800 runner, in other words an 800-1500 guy) and how they trained:
For reaching their best result, all the athletes must exalt their best qualities, not wasting too much time trying to fill in the gaps. I saw great champions having exceptional qualities in some direction, showing great gaps in other direction. If you have a gap at the beginning, NEVER that quality can become a strong quality, only less weak.
For that reason, one training with 10 x 300m for Billy Konchellah (or the top 800m runners coming from 400m) is not only useless, but damageous. On the other side, if one runner is an "aerobic type", and is not so fast, NEVER can run at 110% of his speed (I suppose Cram never able to run 300m in 35"...), and has to develop his "specific speed endurance", using the system of very short recovey.
You must remember that the essence of training is to STIMULATE all the systems of an athlete, and the stimula, for all the activity of endurance (so, 800m too), are in 2 different direction : EXTENSION and INTENSITY.
This means that, for an athlete able running 2 x 300m in 33" with 10' recovery, running 4 x 300min 35" with 6' recovery is a stimula of EXTENSION, while for an athlete able running 20 x 300 in 45" rec. 30", going for 10 x 300 in 39" / 40" rec. 45" is a stimula of INTENSITY.
We cannot think of these 2 words (EXTENSION and INTENSITY) in objective way, but in SUBJECTIVE way. In other words, for every runner, when he runs faster than before he faces a stimulus of intensity, when runs longer (or increases the volume at a pace that normally is able to use) he faces a stimulus of extension.
Another word for propaedeutic can be PREPARATORY. I'm not so good in English, and found this word on the dictionary...
Read more:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3328547&page=1#ixzz4NsFu61x7
Are you saying that what Renato wrote is BS? Or that if Bolt trained like Kipchoge and vice versa, Kipchoge could be a world-class sprinter and Bolt could be a world-class marathoner?