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Title: USATF Marathon Training Article
Post by: Jeff Linger on May 14, 2009, 09:37:29 am
http://www.usatf.org/groups/Coaches/library/2008/Endurance/3JoeVigil1.pdf

For anyone interested, here's an interesting series of charts and information on Marathon training presented at a USATF summit.


Title: Re: USATF Marathon Training Article
Post by: Fredrick Teichert on May 15, 2009, 08:25:57 pm
interesting that they use speed of a mile to establish the benchmarks while Sasha uses 5K times. I suppose they're both an accurate indicator of VO2 Maxx...


Title: Re: USATF Marathon Training Article
Post by: Sasha Pachev on May 20, 2009, 02:18:57 pm
Note that he said mile at VO2 Max, not an all out mile. That is about 3 K race pace.