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BMC April 1999 6/6/99 9:07 pm Page 26Women’s All-Time StatisticsCompiled by Matthew Fraser MoatWomen’s 800m (qualification - five performances inside 1:58)1 1.55.04 Jarmila Kratochilova (CZE) 1:53.28 1:54.68 1:55.04 1:55.91 1:56.272 1.55.24 Nadezhda Olizarenko (UKR) 1:53.43 1:54.85 1:55.82 1:56.03 1:56.093 1:55.40 Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) 1:54.44 1:54.82 1:55.78 1:55.84 1:56.114 1.55.45 Maria Mutola (MOZ) 1:55.19 1:55.29 1:55.43 1:55.62 1:55.725 1:55.61 Olga Minyeva (RUS) 1:54.81 1:55.1 1:55.41 1:55.5 1:57.226 1:55.88 Sigrun Wodars (DDR) 1:55.26 1:55.70 1:55.87 1:56.10 1:56.477 1:56.13 Christine Wachtel (GER) 1:55.32 1:55.86 1:56.11 1:56.64 1:56.718 1:56.19 Tatyana Prorochenko (UKR) 1:55.46 1:55.80 1:55.9 1:56.81 1:57.09 1:56.20 Lyubov Gurina (RUS) 1:55.56 1:56.11 1:56.26 1:56.53 1:56.5610 1:56.23 Doina Melinte (ROM) 1:55.05 1:56.2 1:56.53 1:56.55 1:56.8111 1:56.45 Tatyana Kazankina (RUS) 1:54.94 1:56.5 1:56.6 1:57.0 1:57.2012 1:56.45 Anita Weiss (DDR) 1:55.74 1:56.2 1:56.53 1:56.81 1:56.9813 1:56.51 Ella Kovacs (ROM) 1:55.68 1:56.58 1:56.61 1:56.76 1:56.9214 1:56.70 Lyudmila Veselkova (RUS) 1:55.96 1:56.4 1:56.98 1:56.9 1:57.2515 1:56.73 Nikolina Shtereva (BUL) 1:55.42 1:56.29 1:57.2 1:57.35 1:57.416 1:56.89 Yekaterina Podkopayeva (RUS) 1:55.96 1:56.65 1:57.07 1:57.2 1:57.5717 1:56.98 Slobodanka Colovic (YUG) 1:56.51 1:56.88 1:56.8 1:57.29 1:57.4218 1:56.99 Lilia Nurutdinova (RUS) 1:55.99 1:56.83 1:57.25 1:57.39 1:57.5019 1:57.01 Totka Petrova (BUL) 1:56.2 1:56.59 1:57.0 1:57.64 1:57.620 1:57.03 Yelena Afanaseyeva (RUS) 1:56.61 1:56.63 1:57.04 1:57.38 1:57.5121 1:57.05 Svetlana Masterkova (RUS) 1:56.04 1:56.76 1:57.23 1:57.58 1:57.6322 1:57.05 Jearl Miles-Clark (USA) 1:56.43 1:56.78 1:56.93 1:57.15 1:57.9823 1:57.10 Fita Lovin (ROM) 1:56.67 1:56.71 1:57.32 1:57.42 1:57.424 1:57.14 Irina Podyalovskaya (RUS) 1:55.69 1:57.24 1:57.31 1:57.6 1:57.8425 1:57.14 Svetlana Styrkina (RUS) 1:56.44 1:56.7 1:57.28 1:57.4 1:57.8726 1:57.14 Kelly Holmes (GBR) 1:56.21 1:56.95 1:57.14 1:57.56 1:57.84Women’s 1,500m (qualification - five performances inside 4:03)1 3:55:73 Tatyana Kazankina (RUS) 3:52.47 3:55.0 3:56.0 3:56.56 3:58.632 3:56.03 Qu Yunxia (CHN) 3:50.46 3:55.38 3:57.08 3:57.83 3:59.383 3:57.54 Olga Dvirna (RUS) 3:54.23 3:57.78 3:57.80 3:58.60 3:59.314 3:57.66 Paula Ivan (ROM) 3:53.96 3:56.22 3:58.80 3:59.17 4:00.145 3:57.71 Maricica Puica (ROM) 3:57.22 3:57.48 3:57.73 3:57.82 3:58.296 3:57.81 Zamira Zaytseva (UZB) 3:56.14 3:56.9 3:58.5 3:58.7 3:58.827 3:58.20 Doina Melinte (ROM) 3:56.7 3:58.1 3:58.26 3:58.69 3:59.258 3:58.38 Mary Slaney (USA) 3:57.12 3:57.24 3:58.92 3:59.19 3:59.439 3:58.49 Yekaterina Podkopayeva (RUS) 3:56.65 3:57.4 3:58.3 3:59.78 4:00.310 3:58.55 Tatyana Pozdnyakova (UKR) 3:56.50 3:57.70 3:58.9 3:59.83 3:59.8411 3:58.72 Svetlana Masterkova (RUS) 3:57.11 3:58.42 3:58.95 3:59.30 3:59.8312 3:58.78 Natalia Marasescu (ROM) 3:58.2 3:58.2 3:58.71 3:59.0 3:59.7713 3:59.09 Raviliya Agletdinova (BLR) 3:58.49 3:58.70 3:59.10 3:59.31 3:59.8414 3:59.48 Tatyana Dorovskikh (UKR) 3:57.92 3:58.86 3:59.45 4:00.30 4:01.1715 3:59.50 Sonia OÕSullivan (IRL) 3:58.85 3:59.10 3:59.60 3:59.91 4:00.0616 3:59.75 Tamara Sorokina (RUS) 3:58.89 3:59.24 3:59.3 4:00.6 4:00.717 3:59.81 Gabriella Dorio (ITA) 3:58.65 3:59.02 3:59.82 4:00.30 4:01.2518 3:59.88 Nadezhda Ralldugina (RUS) 3:56.63 3:58.17 4:00.57 4:01.67 4:02.3519 4:00.03 Carla Sacramento (POR) 3:57.71 3:59.89 4:00.08 4:00.60 4:01.8620 4:00.08 Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG) 3:55.30 4:00.00 4:01.05 4:01.85 4:02.2121 4:00.11 Natalya Artyomova (RUS) 3:59.16 3:59.28 4:00.67 4:00.68 4:00.7522 4:00.24 Gabriela Szabo (ROM) 3:56.97 3:59.25 4:00.53 4:01.54 4:02.9123 4:00.27 Lyubov Smolka (UKR) 3:56.7 4:00.8 4:01.0 4:01.25 4:01.624 4:00.49 Kutre Dulecha (ETH) 3:58.43 4:00.47 4:00.86 4:01.00 4:01.7125 4:00.54 Ulrike Bruns (DDR) 3:59.9 4:00.20 4:00.62 4:00.78 4:01.226 4:00.61 Jackline Maranga (KEN) 3:57.41 4:00.66 4:00.81 4:01.88 4:02.2726BMC News : Spring 1999
BMC April 1999 6/6/99 9:07 pm Page 27“Horses for Courses”by Mike GrattonI'm going to start this piece with a bit ofaudience participation by asking you to examinea weekÕs training. I'm going to throw you off thescent by telling you I'm best known as amarathon runner, and I'm going to leave out thedistance of the race in the following example.A further clue is that the athlete in questionQuestion 1:What event was the person training for?Question 2:What time of year was it done?Sunday:20 miles steady runningMonday: a.m. 10 miles steady to workp.m. 8 miles steadyTuesday: a.m. 5 miles steadyp.m. 5 miles steadyp.m. 3 x 800 (average 2.01.3) [approx 4’][rest] 4 x 100m.Wednesday: a.m. 9 miles steady to workp.m. 2 x 8 x 200 (fast) [20"] [rest] 4 x 100.Thursday: a.m. 6 miles steadyp.m. 5 miles steadyp.m. 5 miles steadyFriday: a.m. 6 miles steady to workp.m. RaceSaturday:15 miles quiet fast.Total mileage 110.was Brendan Foster, and it was in 1974. If youare under 40 years of age get your parents infrom watching football on the telly to lend ahand.So, the answers to the questions are:1. 5,000m2. July.Pretty hefty mileage for 5,000m, particularlyin July!You may argue that Foster was not really amiler, but I'd argue otherwise. For a start therace in question at the end of the above weekÕstraining was a 1,500m in a GB vCzechoslovakia match, which he won ahead ofFrank Clement in 3.41.2 and, in any case, hewas also an Olympic 1,500m finalist - and thatmakes him a miler in my book.The reason for flagging Foster up is tobroaden the ÔqualityÕvs ÔmileageÕdebate. Thereis little doubt that if you want to run faster than3.30 for 1,500m you have to train faster than thatpace to achieve it. But you can't do all thattraining at that pace, and I worry about the implicationof the words 'Junk Mileage', as I don'tbelieve there is any such thing.As a young athlete in the 70's I was verymuch influenced by the legendary training ofDave Bedford and read a book released abouthim which outlined the same sort of trainingused by Foster as shown above. This is perhapsno surprise, since they were both at college inBrighton. At the same time I was a 14 year oldEnglish Schools 1,500m finalist and a newBMC member. Searching for help I askedFrank Horwill to send me some training info,and he sent me the schedule of Jim Douglas whohad just become UK 1,500m record holder.The upshot was that I set off on a pattern oftraining that suited me; 1 hour fartleks on grass,30 x 200 (27") [200 jog], 1 1 /2 hr. Sunday runs,etc., by the time I was 15. It had great results.Previously, at the beginning of each season I'drun a PB, win the Kent A.A.A. Juniors & KentSchools 1,500m, before switching to 'SpeedWork' - then start racing slower. This happenedpretty well every season until I twigged, kept themileage up during the summer, and then, lowand behold, I ended up winning the EnglishSchools 5,000m (now run as 3,000m) by thelength of the straight.This is a story that I've witnessed so often inother athletes, their best races come at the startof the season, the decline coming as they switchto really fast training and cut out steady runs.Not pretending to have a grasp of runningtheory, I took much from the books by Lydiardand Cerruty, and have since been fortunateenough to go places like Davros. Turning up atthe end of July for the Swiss Alpine Marathoneach year, I have customarily met Morcelli, anda host of other North African and Kenyanathletes out for a run literally miles from town,maintaining a base with long runs.The significant thing about these guys is thatthey are not running the miles slowly. Back inDavros another year, one of the party with mefor the mildly insane 75km Alpine Marathonclocked Ondieki doing his morning run aroundthe lake. The lake has a good, reasonably flatsurface and is exactly 4km (2 miles around), butat an altitude of 1,570m. We timed two laps (5miles) in 25 minutes - and he was wearing atracksuit.Any coach that thinks his athletes are doingjunk miles when they go for a run should joinany average club night bash around the town.Winter runs in Canterbury in the early 80'sconsisted of myself (2.09 marathon), IanStewart (3.53 mile), James Webster (3.421,500m), and occasionally Nick Brawn (2.21marathon), plus others of some calibre. Mostevent directors would be in a hurry to phonethrough the results to AW if our Monday nightrun had taken place on a Sunday morning intheir local race - and I know that the story wouldbe recognised by many who have trained with astrong club.Good athletes find it tough to run slow, trywarming up with some of them. There is acadence that each individual is mostcomfortable with, which is not just dictated byfitness, and they feel awkward running belowthat pace. It means of course, not many seniorBMC members will be doing long runs slowly,some may be quicker than 5 mins. miling -hardly junk miles.Whether the mileage dents your 400m speedis another question. I'm no great example, but asSearching for help I asked Frank Horwillto send me some training infoa 19-year-old I had PB's at 400/800/1,500 of50.1/1.53/3.50. My career on the track was cutshort by an accident during a building sitevacation job (foot crushed by a forklift truck).But some 10 years later, I turned up to aSouthern League match at Maidenhead (oncinders) and ran 51/1.55/3.55 just 3 weeks afterrunning 2.14 for 11 th in the London Marathon.I never trained for leg speed once I'd becomea marathoner, yet I felt that my sprinting speed,such as it was, was little affected by greatmileage.Mike Gratton -Endurance and Speed(continued on page 29)Photo by: BrawnBMC News : Spring 1999 27
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