Arthur Lydiard's Marathon Training Guide

Arthur Lydiard is probably the most well known coach in the marathon world. Linked below is a guide to his training methods created from an Iowa seminar given in 1999. It is worth a read. Simply put, Lydiard's conditioning revolves around volume and intensity. If you train at near your lactate threshold (75-80% of max) with lots of miles (up to 100 MPW) you can move your running game to a whole new level. This meads 10-11 hours or running each week and runs every day.

http://lydiardfoundation.org/pdfs/al_training.pdf

I'm 40-50 mile per week runner with personal best of 3:42 in a hot OKC marathon about a month ago. My next big run is the Chicago Marathon on October 7th. The next few months of this blog will give a first hand account of putting Lydiard's methods to a test with a 45 year old running looking to move from 3:42 to 3:30 in 4 months putting Lydiard type training to the test.