How crazy is that? 58:42 Eric Kiptanui races twice in a day, podiums in both!

Mzungu, your infos are not correct, and I don't know from where you took Erick's training, that is something very different.

First, he ran in Defense Championships in two different days :

6 June : winning 10000m in 28'17"1

8 June : 3rd in 5000m in 13'47"8.

The official results are not correct, because don't have the specific day of every event, so every competition seems to have been in the first day (6th of June), but this is not true.

After these two competitions, Erick started the race of 10000m during the National Championships, but fell down with a hard impact in one knee, and had to stop for about one month.

I don't know from where you took that training. What Erick did, following the program I prepared for him, in the main sessions, is as follows :

Tue 31.07 :

1 h Fartlek (14 times 3' fast/1' moderate + 4' fast at the end) (18,98 km)

Thu 2.08 :

15 km in 45'57"

Sat 4.08 :

40 km in 2h25'30" (average : 3'38")

Tue 7.08 :

2 x 3000m + 3 x 2000m (rec. 3') in : 8'48"1 - 8'54"1 - 5'48"1 - 5'53"4 - 5'49"5 (rec. 3')

5 x 1000m (rec. 2') in : 2'50"2 - 2'50"1 - 2'49"2 - 2'49"5 - 2'50"3 (rec. 2')

6 x 500m (rec. 1'30") in : 1'20"3 - 1'21"3 - 1'20"2 - 1'20"2 - 1'20"1 - 1'18"6 (Total 20 km on track)

Fri 10.08 :

10 km in 31'20" (rest 5') + 15 km in 46'04"

Mon 13.08 :

6 x 1200m (rec. 2') in : 3'21"4 - 3'21"3 - 3'18"6 - 3'20"4 - 3'21"3 - 3'19"3 (rec. 5')

6 x 800m (rec. 2') in : 2'11"5 - 2'07"2 - 2'10"2 - 2'10"7 - 2'10"3 - 2'11"4 (rec. 5')

6 x 400m (rec. 1') in : 60"3 - 61"0 - 58"3 - 60"3 - 57"3 - 61"3

I'm sure the purpose of your posts is to give some info about the training of top runners, but if you don't have the opportunity to follow personally the athletes, you never can be sure about their training, that, step by step, changes, becoming a MYTH.

Wed Aug 08

AM 16km moderate 63mins

PM 10km easy 40mins

Thu Aug 09

AM 40km Tempo Run: 2hr25mins

Fri Aug 10

AM 16km moderate 62mins

PM 10km easy 39mins

Sat Aug 11

AM warm up 2km - 10mins , 25x400m in 62s/lap , with 200m rest between reps easy jogging. Cool down 3km - 14mins

Sun Aug 12

AM 21km easy-moderate 80mins

Mon Aug 13

AM 20km moderate 69mins

PM 12km easy 47mins

Tue Aug 14

AM warm up 2km - 10mins , 10x1km in 2:44/km , with 300m rest between reps easy jogging + 10x400m in 62s/lap with 300m rest between reps easy jogging. Cool down 2km - 10mins

Wed Aug 15

AM 16km easy 64mins

PM 12km easy 49mins

Thu Aug 16

AM 21km Tempo Run 67mins

PM 10km easy 41mins

Here you go. Eric is feeling great and is looking forward to sharpen his shape this month. His engine is just incredible. Weather is pretty cold in Iten/Kaptagat with more rain but it's been ok so far.

...am I missing something here or is this not the real Renato Canova (Erick Kiptanui's actual coach) telling you exactly what his workouts have been?