I have a friend who I have been helping with his prep for
the upcoming Canberra Marathon in 3 weeks’ time.
It has been extremely difficult trying to offer him advice
as I find he is in the same mould as I was a few years ago in that he just
wants to run and run some more. He is doing massive weeks of 140KM and
continual runs of 40KM plus on Sunday’s. This really is counterproductive for
anyone wanting a good marathon time and he would be better off just by
following his plan of long runs up to 35KM and then backing off again.
Each week he has been ignoring my advice of doing 2 speed sessions on the Tuesday and Thursday, a medium long run on the Wednesday and the long run on the Sunday and instead just makes his own plan up as he goes. This is continually frustrating as I am not the kind of person who just wants to take his money without him seeing great results.
Finally I have got him to calm down for the last three weeks leading into the race and he looks on track for his goal time, but this is just a massive lesson about recognising the effects of overtraining and correcting them early on. Indeed one can’t make improvements in the last few weeks, but there is a very high probability of messing things up in that time.
Running together (while curbing overtraining), stride for stride on a life changing ride. – Sean Muller
Each week he has been ignoring my advice of doing 2 speed sessions on the Tuesday and Thursday, a medium long run on the Wednesday and the long run on the Sunday and instead just makes his own plan up as he goes. This is continually frustrating as I am not the kind of person who just wants to take his money without him seeing great results.
Finally I have got him to calm down for the last three weeks leading into the race and he looks on track for his goal time, but this is just a massive lesson about recognising the effects of overtraining and correcting them early on. Indeed one can’t make improvements in the last few weeks, but there is a very high probability of messing things up in that time.
Running together (while curbing overtraining), stride for stride on a life changing ride. – Sean Muller
No comments:
Post a Comment