hadd’s approachto distance training- electric blues（hadd距离的日常训练——铁青）.doc

Hadd’s Approach to Distance Training Part I Let’s start from the very beginning. A male (or female) approaches me for training. It could be you. (If I use he/she in the following posts in this thread, please note that either of them apply equally well to both sexes. What I am saying works for male and females.) Now I am not a college coach, only used to young studs aged 18 years and up. Which is good, because I get to see a wide spectrum of runners, many of them past-30 and wanting to get back into it again. This has allowed me to gain experience of coaching all ages and all fitness levels and gives me wider knowledge of heart rates (HR) (and not find, as with teenagers, that everyone’s HRmax is simply, over-200). Note that many on Letsrun fall into this category, wanting to get back in the saddle and work to improve their times in their 30s and 40s… Yet I do coach young kids; youngest boy and girl 15 years old, then 17-18 and on up to early 20s… So some of this might in places apply to teenagers. (Having said that, if you are already getting coached, I would recommend that you do what your coach tells you, and dont chop and change ideas with every book/schedule you read. You cannot beat consistency over time.) So, a male or female approaches me… I generally want to know some background before agreeing to take them on. Usually I ask for recent race performances. But I am not just looking at the times here, more importantly I want to see the relationship between the race times and distances. I may get numbers for events like this: From a young runner; 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5k (maybe) From an older (road) runner; 5k (maybe), 10k, HM and marathon (maybe) Right away I’m really looking to see what’s wrong. (If there is nothing “wrong”, there will be a limited amount I can do for the guy). Not what is wrong with the times (eg: theyre slow), but what is wrong with the relationships between the times a) there may not be a relationship, or b) the relation