3 Key Takeaways

  • Training middle-distance runners requires understanding the three athlete types (pure milers, endurance-based 800m runners, sprint-based 800m runners) and tailoring volume and intensity accordingly.
  • Use hill work for strength building, speed work to develop fast-twitch recruitment, and tactical race training to prepare athletes for decisive competition.
  • Athlete Typing: Three Middle-Distance Archetypes

Full Video Transcript

so the guys will be running their session in spikes and somebody not all okay not all ah depends because of the people of 800 meters they needed to from the beginning to use a feet you know very well so spikes are important and don’t don’t do it a lot of volume practically instead for people following distance sometimes it could be dangerous for tendons something like this also owner had lost practically more than one year for stress fracture during the competition really crack when running finish the race this happened in 1500 meters in monaco after 600 meters he wanted to finish the race 332 number three and after lost uh more than one year if you stop months all people coming from the same area montelgon that is in the border with uganda okay the first accounting was now here there are two or three brothers also the tall guy before he is instead he’s born and living in muy ben how do they come to train with your group ronald was started with with a small manager in spain and coming from the first year of competition coming from winning two cross countries in in kenya that period i was in china to 2013 2014. so i i left china 215 after world championship beijing and when i came kenya now there was a practically global was interested he complained with the older manager but they also come to me and we needed to work a little bit near him for uh putting his mind that could go to global because he’s a little bit uh doubtful now and after start practically training in different ways of course he also was one going to japan did you start but a little bit because in japan you never can have a winter full winter of preparation so practically never we could put what i have in mind for increasing the the the engine you know that you work when they are not a competition you’re working it’s not possible because he was in japan but that time with the two or three months for me is the most talented that that i had what i called all there something he never beaten the world record but like putin and the physical planet is the best that i had in my life not the same like shayne for example shaheen was very much more more tough with himself he is very nice a guy very sweet something sometimes for being the number one in the world you need to be a little bit more selfish more arrogant in the right way more avogadro with other people yeah for example in competition why he is one and three four times in 1500 meters or something that is is boxed because there never is one giving you know when they want to do only something easy no not not illegal no instability 500 116 400 meters or 60 and at 300 meters and 44 something like this and 200 meters the last 28 something like this okay two minutes between one test and the other six minutes between one set and the other 800 meters runners no so you one the other the other now you go six four two so you skip one the second okay two so long recovered okay but what you do in this one of these tests is very much a faster so they need not to follow one minute okay the first is all together for 600 you skip a five all together for four you skip three 200 meters boom not that okay okay understand how many times the second time is 400 meters very fast the third time is how many sets yeah how many sets four oh so 153 perfect the girl of this one that has some chance for vitamin may be maybe also why not the world champion world junior champion in 1500 meters and he’s a little bit alone here no and we put practically a normal interval training from 10 times 200 meters about and under 30 seconds with the three minutes recovery walking something like this so young is not a problem too much to to have too much volume people 800 meters if they can go to 15. we need to practically do to try to build the the strength and speed okay something long also but for building these you need to have a maybe one or two times per week something faster more short something sprint hilly something like this no for because these people don’t go in the gym it’s not like there is somebody going already but not not the beginners absolutely so we build everything using the the hills the main session what are they busy preparing for at the moment we are in a period of building up you know is not yet something specific so sometimes also attitude that are a little bit different like a final event can train together and that there is the difference in maybe the next so for example the training of today sometime the next training for for somebody is very much longer for 800 meters or honestly maybe not last time we had 150 meters for example very possible this is a little bit like when we speak for five ten steeple half marathon the common work good for everybody is a work about the the threshold this is the work after you decide if you if you do something faster you go over the tradition if you do something longer like marathon you go under the pressure but this is the work that they can do in group also if the events are different after the difference is trapped this is a work for supporting but you you support the base for all the past events and instead is the top four marathon you see so easy nice one guys yes did you do morning training yeah what did you do this morning 12k 40 minutes one fourteen and nine one minute [Applause] [Applause] what is go go go go first so ew they move yeah 23. yes yes she is the one renata thinks can be world champion here yes he doesn’t have even naia in training less than a year the brother when he was zero was running on uh you know he doesn’t even know his race but one month and he was already winning that trial he was second in the trial to go for for the world junior under under under 20.

last year she was there only one month in training how old does she know 18 18 years very young so she is now competing in under 20 yes and what what is her distance is it 800 it was 800 but now we change because it’s better in 1500 because where we can see that there’s a medal there in 15th and 800 meters okay so today for her is purely speed workout yes 200 meters how many times 10 times 10 times two years remaining and you can see the first 26 27 28 28 28 so this is really good you were an 800 meter runner yeah training with renata yeah and now you are his assistant coach assistant coach and that is for me it’s really a blessing you know okay because they need to go more than you maybe okay uh um good 56th one all right halfway half half of walk needed to go too heavy 600 faster so we got to see uh who’s the the guy in the black the black shirt the 800 meter guy that is the lady that’s hilarious yes he likes to come from the back he’s already a 144 guy sure yeah but in many of the sets he holds back and then he finishes that is really nice that’s really nice that’s how you run on 800 meters sometime you’re going from it depends it depends on if your front runner is like that but if if another front runner you go a little bit behind you see how the others are running and just like that what is a better way to train to run your efforts at constant pace or like hillary is doing now where he holds back and then he finishes fast sometimes you know whatever you do in rs it you do it in training so you know you you train smoothly then a competition might be because 800 is really really you know it’s a tactical dress it’s not like other ssc weight or something like that it’s kind of mathematic yeah you cannot just run because you are running sometimes you find a way to touch other athlete in that competition so if if you decide to go from front because an 800 is like 400 meters so you don’t need to wait lot so you reach a point you you make a move there you go oh what were you telling them no we spoke about uh about the hillary you know that i thought that can also run 1500 meters but in in his mind that has 800 20 seconds come by 130. 30 seconds 200. guys are missing they’re flying final set elan you already have now in his leg he has 143 possible now oh you think so yeah i can see the way he’s relaxing the way he’s moving you know it’s like you know the fly and uh is he finished now yeah he finished already okay why does he finish early because you know these are five fifteen hundred it’s an 800 millisecond so okay problem is not the same i see so the 800 meter guys are finishing early all of them oh no this guy is still around 700 meters but he’s still around you know i needed to be like in a cupboard and hillary looked like he had a good session as well very good session i noticed often hillary would be towards the back of the group and then he would you know he likes uh it can can also have very very 1500 meters but he rises this type of uh mental explosion so he’s it’s more for eight hundred it’s another that they can run 143 this year so it can be good also with the same talent what makes the difference is what you have in the brain maybe education so the tall guy finished at the high school the other never went to high school so there are different situations we need to to consider everything when there is a new group also some matter how many planets there are that disappear after one year because of this situation the family behind or something like this but this is a good group and you don’t need to do anything for for recruiting people when you have a good group automatically every two three months there is somebody good they want to join you see when you want to see the talent of an athlete you need to start to see his feet when you have a reactivity you are elastic something like this under the biomechanical point of view you are already good after we don’t know what there is the engine inside but if you if you run for something short distance side 1500 meters like this if you don’t have this type of biomechanic and never you can become really really a top maybe martin sometime no patos marathon the best artists of all time in the world are people that we are able to run fast and something also short with very very good feet kipchoge won world championship 2003 in 5000 meters now bakery is back here practically no something like this moses mozart with me it was practically number three in world championship in 10 000 meters behind the carrier with the last lap faster than the heli practically you know so all the artists that had some some talent also in speed and inerticity you