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The making of the athlete AB
After the 5km time-trial, the week before, we now prepared towards the 10km which would take place on the 20th July in Playa Blanca. This article follows on from - Intro to the athlete AB. I have been given permission to write a warts and all blog about the ups and...
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Catching the Dopers
Over the last couple of months, 2013, is proving to be a successful year in catching the dopers. The extent of the Russian 'doping scandal' becomes more evident as more and more cheaters are exposed via the retesting of samples from 2005. Before the London Olympics,...
Thoughts behind the programs
This post has been moved from the forums so that we could refer users to this url when asking similar questions. The following questions were originally asked by JamieH: 1. How much science is there behind the spacing of the 5x2k, Long run and 6x1k in the programme,...
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Thoughts behind the programs
This post has been moved from the forums so that we could refer users to this url when asking similar questions. The following questions were originally asked by JamieH: 1. How much science is there behind the spacing of the 5x2k, Long run and 6x1k in the programme,...
COACHING
Steve Jones Record
In 1984, a certain Steve Jones of Wales, made his debut in Chicago, in one of the most competitive fields assembled after the LA Olympics. Jones went on to set a world record of 2:08:05. The following year he returned to win again in 2:07:13 (missing Carlos Lopes WR...
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Farah loses to Bekele’s tactical nuance
One thing came out of today's GNR with Paula Radcliffe and her commentary, she is no doubt a great time-trialer but seemed to show she knows nothing about the tactical battles that take place at the top level amongst the men. She kept mentioning that Mo Farah was...
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MMS – 10k Program success
One of the successes of the 10k Training Programs that I would like to mention is MMS. Marcelo resides in Brazil and came onto The Training Zone forums in 2009. His first post under the title - Improving 10k with regular training was as follows: "I started running on...
Farah loses to Bekele’s tactical nuance
One thing came out of today's GNR with Paula Radcliffe and her commentary, she is no doubt a great time-trialer but seemed to show she knows nothing about the tactical battles that take place at the top level amongst the men. She kept mentioning that Mo Farah was...
sub 60 minute schedule added
Incredibly, after being involved in road running since 1982 and performance coaching since 1984, I finally have to admit that I was a touch of an elitist, and considered that everyone should be running sub 60 minutes for 10km. At least, that should be the standard...
Progressive Training
Often when discussing the 10k Training Programs, I read and reply to users of the forums who discuss training methods and the want to do other sessions such as hillwork to be incorporated into the schedule or tempo runs. Now whereas all these particular sessions are...
Tatyana McFadden
Tatyana McFadden - winner of both the Boston and London marathons this week .. hats off to the US family who adopted her .. Long live the Brave Background: Abandoned by her Russian birth parents in an orphanage, McFadden walked on her hands for the first six years of...