Yuki Kawauchi runs 2:07:35 in Osaka

Like the 7x1k at 2:55 three days after the 2:18 marathon. And of course the 50k jog 10 days out. Yuki is the best.

Thanks!

Not to diminish anything he's done, but I think he's an Asics-sponsored pro now and no longer works for the city of Saitama.

I thought the most impressive performance in that race was the WR 2:24 by a visually impaired man who was tethered to a guide the whole way. Amazing.

Super interesting this "free" concept of just letting a 1km rip after a steady effort. You can see how quickly the body responds to these efforts. Super cool.

So,so interesting with Citizen Runner and his one a day training/ racing and runs a 2:07. The high mileage brigade on LRC scratch their heads and can't believe it's true, lol 😁 They "defend" the believe in a must of high mileage to run fast at marathon by saying " Well, if Yuki trained high mileage and doubles daily he had run faster" . Now we know they are wrong. He tried that concept after his Boston win only to find he got worse... 😉😁🧙‍♂️

Yuki runs high mileage

Well, we can notice he sometimes ( !) make a double threshold nowadays according to this training segment , nothing he did before his Boston win. Then he tried doubles daily and got worse and switched back to his one a day sessions and ran a pb 2:07.Now go back to your cave and don't comment at all. Leave it to the real pros....😁😉🤣

My points still stand, my dear fat caveman. He runs doubles, he runs high mileage, he does very long runs. All things you are against.

And the other point that stands is that you don't know much about marathon training.

Oh, and Yuki's 2:07 marathons came after he switched to carbon fiber plate shoes, which studies show to save your leg muscles during training, and probably giving you some benefit in racing too.

I am always happy to make you less ignorant, Janne.

To Flo'da boy, thank you for this thread. You have been one of my favorite posters for years.

Since when I'm against very long runs ? As always you talk your rubbish...the specific very effective long run in my own Dancan training system extends to 2 hours 40 min. It has been proved to be enough to stand perfectly the marathon distance. I will send you a great recipe of Swedish meatballs, probably the only balls you will come near nowadays...🤣🤣🤣

Yuki may run relatively high mileage but I find another tweet of his interesting:

Translation:

Monthly running distance before 2023 Osaka (2:07'35, 2nd best)
November 518km
December 611km
January 649km
February 662km

Monthly distance before 2019 Doha (2:17'59, World's lowest ranking)
June 777km
July 826km
August 1004km
September 697km

As Hatsuo Kitada-senpai said, I was able to reconfirm that running more than 600km a month does not necessarily lead to better results.

awww shucks!

lolol… I have no idea what this even means, but it is so funny for some reason

Kawauchi-san is great!👍👍👍

My favorite distance athlete

Flo’da man, thanks for posting this. You da’ man😁