Running Risks

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I’ve been reading Angella Issajenko’s book and on page 98 it details her workout from April 15th 1980.

Morning:
4 laps, 6x20m, A & B skips
1x600m, 1x300m, 3x100m
Medicine ball
10 + 50m running As, 40m accelerations, jog back.

Afternoon:
8 laps, 6x20m, As, Bs, running As
1x600m, 1x300m, 3x100m
10 + 50m tempo into 20m running As, jog back
Short break
6xMedicine ball I + II
100 + 200 + 100m
200 + 200 + 100
100 + 200 + 200 + 200
100 + 200 + 200 + 200
100 + 200 + 100
Short break
50m into 20m running As, jog back
50m into 20 push ups
50m into 20 sit ups
50m into 20 hip circles
50m into 20m running As
50m into 20 push ups
50m into 20 sit ups
50m into 20m running As
50m into 20 push ups
50m into 20 sit ups
Warm down

That seems like a killer day of training!! I would be interested to get the thoughts of the forum regarding that session, and also how that sort of training evolved into Charlie’s more contemporary methods. Also Charlie, did you set both those sessions, or would Angella have snuck in one of those sessions by herself in an effort to work harder???

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She mentions in the book that she thought Charlie overworked her in general.

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In Speed Trap, Charlie specifically mentions that, in hindsight, he should have cut her workload back

and that, as his first athlete to get to a high level (with all that entailed), he made mistakes with her

Lyle

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As a coach you can’t help but be distracted if not influenced by the sessions you hear/read of performed by contemporary athletes.

In 1979 when Pietro Mennea set a 200m world record - breaking the wonderful Tommie Smith’s mark - it was published in a couple of journals which I read within months of the Italian’s run that a key session was 5x5x60m all in some crazy time like 6.2. When you read corroborative reports of a new world recordbreaker’s training regime, it is difficult to ignore and think that maybe 2x5x60 is quite enough.

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Cool guys, thanks for the feedback. I have yet to finish Running Risks and it has been a while since I read Speed Trap. Yea, it was mentioned elsewhere on this forum recently regarding Mennea’s volume and as I said Collio’s group appear to be doing something similar. All very interesting!