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Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
In 1991 at the World Track and Field Championships, the men’s marathon was held in sweltering conditions, described as the worst ever reported for championship marathon.
Steve Spence was able to handle it better than almost everyone – thanks to his innovative training – earning himself a bronze medal.
Steve was ahead of his time in several ways.
He used high weight, low rep strength training and also bucked the accepted marathon training model by putting his speed work first and following it with high mileage and long runs.
Also, Steve was one of very few runners to coach himself onto the Olympic team.
Some of the things that Steve and I talked about included:
- How Steve became his own coach and lessons you can learn from his experience with self-coaching
- The training program that allowed Steve to race consistently well for months at a time
- Steve’s unusual-for-the-time approach to marathon training and weight training
- How Steve approaches to his own running since his retirement from elite competition
- Steve’s coaching work at Shippensberg and his thoughts on the future of the sport
This was an amazing interview, especially for those of you who are interested in how to add strength training to your running, looking for innovative ways to train for the marathon, and who are trying to coach themselves.
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