How would you change training in marathon build-ups throughout a career?

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Deena Kastor · Answer

Marathon buildups are always different because our circumstances are different each time and I know it's hard and challenging but trying not to compare any build-up to one another, but making sure you're getting in the work, you're getting in the anaerobic work and the long runs the tempo runs. The only thing that I feel changed significantly over the years is as I became an aging athlete and had more hats to wear in the day. Day as a mom and the president of the mammoth track club and traveling as an ambassador for races or my sponsor is that I needed to really balance my energy demands and so, I found as I got into my mid-40s that I wouldn't run, 140 miles a week anymore. I couldn't Place those demands on my body, but I could maybe focus on quality work and making sure that that I had met. Not a 22 mile long run, but two semi long runs back to back to try to get into that. Second long run on fatigued legs. And I learned that from the ultra world that maybe I would do a 12 mile run, one day, and a 12 mile run the next day. Easy days would typically be a six to eight mile run now instead of 12 to 15. So I think focusing on quality in the later stages of my career has helped me. Not just stay at At the, the top of the sport, but also enjoy it and also enjoy the other hats that I wear throughout the day.

Ben Rosario · Answer

How would you change training in Marathon build ups throughout a career? Oh boy. Well I mean if you go back to when I was running marathons, I would do a lot different because I've learned so much since then. But that was, you know, almost 20 years ago, over the last eight plus years coaching hookah and AZ Elite. I think we even have made changes to how we do things now compared to how we do, think, how we did things at the beginning but I think no matter what If you have a long career of running marathons, if you run marathons for 10, 12 15, 20 years, you need to make changes, you need to switch things up and challenge the body, and the mind and in different ways. I think that if you're someone who has relied on Long mileage, or have you having mileage and really big workouts, maybe scaling that mileage back a little bit for for a segment and doing a little bit of Sure to work, still keeping in the big long, important sessions that are really specific, but also working on some other things, if you will, I think that would be good. And then the, the opposite, of course, if you're someone who hasn't really tried higher mileage and big volume workouts, you relied on traditional 5K, 10K type work and a long run, switch it up and try some of the super long workouts that maybe you've seen us to or other people, where, you know, you're out there running 15 16 miles of work, but but A lot slower than than you do when you're doing 5K, 10K work. I think some of those things are good. The biggest thing is to never make too many changes in any one segment from one segment to another, what you're doing is make I call it making tweaks. So you're analyzing your prior segment finding ways that you could maybe change things up, but that you still know you'll succeed. That's how I change training in marathons, from build up to build up.

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