Yuki Kawauchi Speaks

his take on ultra long runs for training and learning from the Japanese greats f the past is very interesting

He mentions having added many 50km jogs to his training, as well a 100km run in about 7.5 hours (very reminiscent of Seko)

These are great reading. Thanks for posting the links.

bakemono wrote:

These are great reading. Thanks for posting the links.

Ditto.

Great stuff. Love his mindset!

Looks like he's racing again this weekend. Running in the States on New Year's Day too.

The dude's wikipedia has him running 10 marathons this year. And that doesn't include Fukuoka. So that's at least 11 marathons. Not including other races. That's ridiculous.

Lydiard was right

Citizen runner, right. Given the amount of time he spends training and racing, what job could he have? It's all a show. He's good, so good (and more importantly, popular) he has some sort of sponsorship...but doesn't want to let go of the "citizen runner" tag.

However, be warned that I just made all this up and I have no idea and I actually love the dude. Don't sue me Yuki.

belial wrote:

Citizen runner, right. Given the amount of time he spends training and racing, what job could he have? It's all a show. He's good, so good (and more importantly, popular) he has some sort of sponsorship...but doesn't want to let go of the "citizen runner" tag.

However, be warned that I just made all this up and I have no idea and I actually love the dude. Don't sue me Yuki.

He works evening shift at a school and does his mon- fri training in the morning, single runs usually of around 20 km. He typically does a long trail run and either a race or tempo rum on weekends.

Like most people he gets 5 weeks annual leave (I know you Americans don't) and uses that to run international races.

I think those very important articles for anyone who wonders what's wrong with their training. A lot of people on these forums don't do enough easy jogging. Than they tell me that I'm wrong when I suggest to someone just jog easy if they are sore or feeling overtrained. It is like this article wejo talks about the reason why he didn't do good in college was that he wasn't doing enough easy jogging. Take easy, remember as Lydiard said, "Train don't strain". Americans tend to think the secret to getting in shape is through really tough workouts. But training easy and building up your aerobic engine is no secret just hard work.

Lydiard summed it up perfectly,

I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

http://www.azquotes.com/quote/698564

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2006/09/wejo-speaks-why-i-sucked-in-college/

mo'pak wrote:

belial wrote:

Citizen runner, right. Given the amount of time he spends training and racing, what job could he have? It's all a show. He's good, so good (and more importantly, popular) he has some sort of sponsorship...but doesn't want to let go of the "citizen runner" tag.

However, be warned that I just made all this up and I have no idea and I actually love the dude. Don't sue me Yuki.

He works evening shift at a school and does his mon- fri training in the morning, single runs usually of around 20 km. He typically does a long trail run and either a race or tempo rum on weekends.

Like most people he gets 5 weeks annual leave (I know you Americans don't) and uses that to run international races.

There are about 16 awake hours in a person's day. Does the poster-fool belial run that much each day? If not, what does belial do when he is not running? Troll on LRC?

Bump for Yuki

Why did Lydiard make that statement when Schul and Mills had won the 5 and 10?