Enjoy these quotes from Arthur Lydiard – one of the most influential running coaches of all time:
Miles make the champions
From enjoyment comes the will to win.
It’s just a matter of understanding what’s necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
Train, don’t strain.
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It’s no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. Likewise – it’s no good training for speed, or anaerobic capacity with lots of interval type of training when you haven’t developed your aerobic capacity to maximum. You have to take a long view and train on all aspects of development through a systematic program. It’s a lot of hard work for five, six or seven years. There’s no secret formula. There’s no shortcut to the top.
You should race when you’re ready. Don’t get out there and make a fool out of yourself.
If your coach can’t tell you why you are doing a particular workout, get yourself another coach.
Always bear in mind that the wise only train according to their age, physical condition, and their capacity to exercise. They learn quickly about themselves and train by that knowledge, increasing volume and intensity of work only when they feel their condition is improving. If you try to train and race fast too soon, without proper consideration of the various aspects involved in training, you are doomed to disappointment. You must clearly understand what you are attempting and what effects your exercise will have. And you must work within that understanding.
Never do anaerobic work in conditioning. Never. Ever. That’s one of the first things: You don’t do it. Don’t even try. Don’t even run fast to the finish.That’s the one thing you’ve got to learn.
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
Your aerobic development is a gradual thing. It takes years and years of marathon-type training to develop your aerobic capacity to the fullest.
Hills are the shortcut to success.
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
The most important thing in running a marathon is muscular endurance. If you want to run a good marathon, you’ve got to do long runs. If you are a serious runner, it helps to go as far as 30 miles in preparation.
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don’t force them to run too much competition.
There are champions everywhere. Every street has got them. All we need to do is train them properly.
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