African mzungu wrote:
I think Renato coached in his career 9 or 10 athletes under 27' in 10000m, with the best at 26'30".
About this year, two athletes of his group became world champions, one woman in cross country (Irene Cheptai), and one man in marathon (Geoffrey Kirui). Another athlete closed the season in first position in the final world lists in Mile and 3000m (Ronald Kwemoi), injured during the DL of Monaco, and not able to run well in WCh.
It's difficult to follow and to understand his system, from what he writes, because the training is build on the individual characteristics, and adjusted according practical situations (I remember, years ago, he wrote the training of Abel Kirui before winning WCh in Daegu, where hw had 14 days off in the last 45 days, for a problem in one knee).
However, I think he never choose between long continuous run and intervals, but thinks one complementary of the other.
That Canova is the coach of Geoffrey Kirui is not correct. Kirui runs 90 mpw at most and prefer to train on his own up at his hilly home surrounding. Only for some special long sharpening runs he meet with Canova.