From what I've read he didn't do that much milegae, only 100-110 miles per week or so. And, he advocated for the consumption of hut fudge. Other than that, anyone has any more info into his training?
From what I've read he didn't do that much milegae, only 100-110 miles per week or so. And, he advocated for the consumption of hut fudge. Other than that, anyone has any more info into his training?
Most of his career he trained for 5000m, so his 100-110mile weeks were actually very solid volume.
He submitted his schedule for "Road Runners And Their Training" by Joe Henderson:
Sunday 16M long run
the rest of the week was 5M every morning, 10-12 in the evening. Monday track session. Sample was 4 x(6x300, 48-48s)w/100 jog. Thursday was road fartlek of 2:00/1:00/0:30, five sets total. I'm not sure if the 1:00 was recovery pace or a fast pace with some other recovery between.
Pretty standard fare. No mention of periodization other than "summers and winters were relaxed".
A real string bean back in the day at 6'3", 150lbs.
Really should have a bronze from the Olympics.
YMMV, thank you for the info.
I just realized today is his birthday, happy birthday to Don Kardong.
Don was one of my favorite writing runners, along with Kenny Moore. He even dabbled with ultrarunning way before it was a "thing"
Best name ever for a runner.
DoNNNNN.
KaRRRR-----
DONGGG!!!
I remember him for being one of the first Americans to run sub-13 for 3 miles and
for a love of Fruit Loops!
The first track meet I ever saw live was the 1971 NCAA Championships, where Don (Stanford) got outkicked by a scrappy little blonde guy from Oregon in the three mile.
Ouch, what's going to happen? Will Bloomsday stay strong after 2019 or will it decline like Portland's Shamrock run, and other races?