Nine day training cycle?
Eight day training cycle (like Paula Radcliff had when pro) plus one extra rest day for travelling to Europe?
That's what I wanna know about.
Nine day training cycle?
Eight day training cycle (like Paula Radcliff had when pro) plus one extra rest day for travelling to Europe?
That's what I wanna know about.
hagos pocket wrote:
This sounds stupid.
1. A 4:28 would be *easy* for someone of his caliber at the end of an aerobic run like that. 5:30s isn't fast for Rupp, it's his maintenance aerobic pace. It looked effortless because it was. If he collapsed on the track from 4:28, that belies a lack of recovery from Boston.
2. 24 miles on the track at any pace is flat-out dumb. Invitation to injury.
3. 24 miles seven days out from a goal race is borderline dumb, even at relatively slow paces like this. I say borderline, because ultimately it's just two hours of easy running, which should be bread and butter for Rupp at this point. Still, it's more than necessary, and it's coming off a busted race.
Not sure if I believe this happened. 4/10
1 - If you read the article you would know it wasn't all on the track.
2 - You are not a world class coach who has coached some of the best athletes in the world.
3 - You have no idea how fast Galen recovers from these type of workouts. I would trust Alberto knows what he is doing.
booooooring wrote:
atleast wrote:
This thread may have been stupid, but at least it has some nice posts by malmo; thanks malmo.
malmo making fun of others and telling us how fast he was does not make an interesting, unusual, or nice post.
This is such an asinine post and it makes me wonder why you felt motivated to think of it and then follow through with posting.
Malmo stated some facts, not opinions, of his own experience and related them to the subject matter. You interpret that as making fun of others because... Oh never mind.
Here's what I think will help you; stop what you're doing, go to the mirror, breath deeply while staring at your reflection. And you may ask yourself, "Well...how did I get here?"
Slow Bro wrote:
I know I'm in the minority, but I enjoy a long run on the track. I don't have to think about where I'm going, it's a nice surface, flat, and I have splits every quarter mile.
It allows me to zone out and really enjoy the run. I recently did a 65 lap long run on the track and it was the best one of this training cycle.
I have done hundreds of distance work outs on the track, many 10+ miles. There is nothing "crazy" about it if it is what works for you.
i think you are right. if i remember well , kipchoge ran 10 days prior berlin last year a sweet 40k, and it was not slow (perhaps 10 or 12s per k slower than race pace). hard to imagine for a mortal but these guys need a stimulus like that close to a race of some importance to get all the benefits of supercompensation.
hagos pocket wrote:
2. 24 miles on the track at any pace is flat-out dumb. Invitation to injury.
It says in the article....
"The workout was 24 miles with the last mile fast, and it was run on both the roads and the track."
It is totally irresponsible of Al to have Rupp run 24 miles on the track this close to his marathon (I won't even mention the hard pace).
Does anyone know if this was an indoor or outdoor track that Rupp ran 26 miles on?
echo wrote:
Does anyone know if this was an indoor or outdoor track that Rupp ran 26 miles on?
had to have been indoor. there are no outdoor tracks in Portland
Takinadump wrote:
Yeah sure Rupp had an asthma attack. That's not what it looked like when he tried to respond to Yuki's break and was easily dropped. He was utterly demoralized and went home devastated.
Of course he did.
Galen couldn't match that furious increase in leg speed velocity that Yuki threw down.
Rupp had no choice but get utterly demoralized and then head home devastated.
ur just a h8r galen rox
Not a Rupp flag waver but this is a legit workout for him. 50% of the people didn't bother to read the post and see that he didn't do the entire 24 miles on the track. The Colorado female runner he coached did a similar workout inside the NIKE headquarters grounds. This is one of A Sal's marathon workouts and 9 days out is not too close.
Now, Kipchope's workout at 8,000 feet was impressive!
This was the actual workout:
22 miles @ 6:00 pace on roads
1 mile @ 5:36 on track
1 mile @ 4:28 on track
wisenheimer at work wrote:
i think you are right. if i remember well , kipchoge ran 10 days prior berlin last year a sweet 40k, and it was not slow (perhaps 10 or 12s per k slower than race pace). hard to imagine for a mortal but these guys need a stimulus like that close to a race of some importance to get all the benefits of supercompensation.
Looks to me like Rupp/AlSal stole this workout from Kipchoge (I don't blame them).
From the Kipchoge training, pre-Berlin, 10 days out:
"Thu Sep 14. PM 40km Tempo Run: 2hrs15min – challenging cross country course"(*)
By my math, that's 24.8 miles at 5:26-7 a mile -- pretty similar!!!
(*) source:
http://www.sweatelite.co/eliud-kipchoge-full-training-log-leading-marathon-world-record-attempt/bleu wrote:
The Colorado female runner he coached did a similar workout inside the NIKE headquarters grounds.
"The Colorado female runner" had me legit LOLing. 10/10.
And yes, that workout was filmed by flotrack and may or may not still be somewhere on their website.
Tough way to make a living... that takes super dedication, talk about a very boring way to run 24 miles on a hard surface.
Good luck to him in his upcoming race.
Here's the video: https://www.flotrack.org/video/5140468-kara-goucher-workout-20m-pre-boston-episode-13 Once I saw the thread I immediately googled it, figured it was done similarly to this.
posting from my parents basement wrote:
bleu wrote:
The Colorado female runner he coached did a similar workout inside the NIKE headquarters grounds.
"The Colorado female runner" had me legit LOLing. 10/10.
And yes, that workout was filmed by flotrack and may or may not still be somewhere on their website.
Nike HQ track.
malmo wrote:
If you think this thread is bad then read the blog that it alludes to. To the blogger it was the most amazing workout ever done. I couldn't stop giggling.
Agreed, if this thread wasn't bad enough the blog may have even been worse. "Exhausted, Galen fell to the track"...seriously?
A lot of this going on in this thread: