GERMAN FERNANDEZ--what's the final word??

If he has injury problems/does better on low intensity. He should move to a 9-12 day schedule:

Example:

Day one: long run with tempo pace mixed in.

Two to three days: easy

Day four or five: workout

Two to three days: easy

Day seven or eight: workout

Two to three days: easy

Repeat.

Someone who is injury prone needs at least 2-3 easy days between workouts.

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If he has injury problems/does better on low intensity. He should move to a 9-12 day schedule:

Example:

Day one: long run with tempo pace mixed in.

Two to three days: easy

Day four or five: workout

Two to three days: easy

Day seven or eight: workout

Two to three days: easy

Repeat.

Someone who is injury prone needs at least 2-3 easy days between workouts.

There are only 7 days in a week.

rigid wrote:

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If he has injury problems/does better on low intensity. He should move to a 9-12 day schedule:

Example:

Day one: long run with tempo pace mixed in.

Two to three days: easy

Day four or five: workout

Two to three days: easy

Day seven or eight: workout

Two to three days: easy

Repeat.

Someone who is injury prone needs at least 2-3 easy days between workouts.

There are only 7 days in a week.

who says your training cycle needs to conform to a 7 day calendar week? Are the week police going to come and arrest you?

rigid wrote:

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If he has injury problems/does better on low intensity. He should move to a 9-12 day schedule:

Example:

Day one: long run with tempo pace mixed in.

Two to three days: easy

Day four or five: workout

Two to three days: easy

Day seven or eight: workout

Two to three days: easy

Repeat.

Someone who is injury prone needs at least 2-3 easy days between workouts.

There are only 7 days in a week.

And your point is? 9-12 day cycles are used by the Japanese, Meb Keflezighi, Kenny Moore etc. It takes anywhere from 48-72 hours to recover from a workout. You should do workouts based off of recovery. Not do a workout just because it is Tuesday or do a long run just because it is Saturday.

Someone posted a while back about an American marathoner who follows a 9- or 10-day cycle. Can't remember who it was, though. I think maybe Mark Nenow also followed a longer than 7-day cycle. Poster above is right: there's no law that dictates your long run has to be Sunday before noon. Following a longer cycle can mean increasing the number of easy days between intense workouts. It does mean you have to have a flexible schedule, though. Certainly not a blue-collar-runner-friendly program. With Fernandez, I'm not sure anyone has been able to pinpoint exactly what the challenges are to keeping him healthy and fit. The anemia, for instance, wasn't because of the intensity of his training yet it seemed to have maybe longer-term consequences. I though he previously had been training on medium-mileage and medium-high intensity.

rigid wrote:

Someone who is injury prone needs at least 2-3 easy days between workouts.

There are only 7 days in a week.[/quote]

rigid wrote:

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If he has injury problems/does better on low intensity. He should move to a 9-12 day schedule:

Example:

Day one: long run with tempo pace mixed in.

Two to three days: easy

Day four or five: workout

Two to three days: easy

Day seven or eight: workout

Two to three days: easy

Repeat.

Someone who is injury prone needs at least 2-3 easy days between workouts.

There are only 7 days in a week.

you obviously do not know what a 9-12 day schedule means

There are "Eight Days a Week"

Peaked in high school, really.

Er... wrote:

With Fernandez, I'm not sure anyone has been able to pinpoint exactly what the challenges are to keeping him healthy and fit. The anemia, for instance, wasn't because of the intensity of his training yet it seemed to have maybe longer-term consequences. I though he previously had been training on medium-mileage and medium-high intensity.

That's the million dollar question: what exactly was the problem?

That kid could run 4:00/ 8:30 a few hours apart as a 17 yo off of minimal mileage?

3:55 and 13:25 the next year??

Man, let a guy with those genetics jog 75 miles a week and do one tempo run and strides a few times a week and he'd probably do great.

Really a shame to not figure it out.

He should be coached by Tinman.

Didn't he officially retire?

Dhbfhndfh wrote:

He should be coached by Tinman.

Excellent idea! Get Fernandez to Tinman.

Let's get the LRC nation behind this movement--can you imagine the message board mania if these two (two of the most popular board topics) created a big success together?!!?!

C'mon Tom and German, get together and make one last push for glory!

YOLO!

German Fernandez went to Oklahoma State University and was coached and mentored by Dave Smith.

great hopes wrote:

Dhbfhndfh wrote:

He should be coached by Tinman.

Excellent idea! Get Fernandez to Tinman.

Let's get the LRC nation behind this movement--can you imagine the message board mania if these two (two of the most popular board topics) created a big success together?!!?!

C'mon Tom and German, get together and make one last push for glory!

YOLO!

I think if that happened, this board would explode.

Yes he’s done, he should have left BTC, he’s a quality > quantity guy. Should have ran for Vigil.

Honestly, it would be nice if someone could get a hold of him and do an interview.

If I remember his mileage in high school was pretty low in the 40-60 range? I believe he ran pretty quick daily though.

meat grinder grinds meat wrote:

German Fernandez went to Oklahoma State University and was coached and mentored by Dave Smith.

Thank you for that factoid.

Japanese have a 9-12 day week - that's why they are better in the 'thon.

Gambate wrote:

Japanese have a 9-12 day week - that's why they are better in the 'thon.

Japanese do not say "thon" or for that matter "Mary"

Japanese do however visit LetsRun.com