Hardloper wrote:
fred wrote:Rodgers and others might have raced the first 20 miles of
a marathon as a workout, but I don't think that is the same
as Canova's hard 40k workouts.
Actually, a better analogy would be Rogers and others who would race 5+ marathons per year, but with some of them less important than others. For example in 1976 Rogers won the Baltimore marathon in 2:14. He trained through it for Boston. This is more like the hard 40k workouts and actually Canova has stated it can be beneficial to race a marathon on "80% fitness" a couple months before your real race.
"Hardloper
RE: To all those who doubted Wilson Kipsang's practice run, put that in your pipe and smoke it! 9/29/2013 3:02PM - in reply to NativeSon Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Some people thought he was talking about running a full marathon in 2:03 in training. I knew he was referring to a 40 km run the whole time, because Renato has talked a lot about doing a hard 40k with his athletes though it was usually in the 2:10 range.
Though I was surprised to hear that the course and altitude mean that Kipsang's 2:03:30 training run was more like a sub-2 40k run on a nice course at sea level which is effectively over 97% of race pace."
What's new in the current training is the level of intensity
As you say Kipsang's 40k @ altitude was the equivalent of
sub 2 hours, on the INTERNAL LOAD.
Rodgers 2:14 marathon is in no way equivalent, and Kipsang's
way of running this workout is what is new in training.