Renato Canova wrote:
6) You need to understand that marathon is a fact of mentality. When you fear the distance, never you can run fast all the race, and this is what happened in the past. We had some exception, like Steve Jones and Carlos Lopes, but were not able to understand their message, thinking they could have run faster, if using a more tranquil approach. Now, the only way to run a marathon (with pacers) is running fast from the start, and this is the interpretation for who is well prepared, but also for who is not prepared, but has this mentality, that in Kenya and Ethiopia is the ONLY mentality of marathon runners.
Great post coach Canova.