> One interesting comment I've heard from some first timers at Chicago is that they would do more > speed work before the next time they run Chicago. After his 1997 run in Chicago, Khalid Khannouchi > said he would treat his next Chicago more like a 10,000 on the track.
Yeah, but look at the staple workouts he did before both his world records - long, hard runs where he drops the pace down to faster than marathon pace by the end. That is probably the most common workout among all modern marathoners - a hard "pace" run of 15-23 miles, with most of them cutting down the pace as they go. He may have said he'd train more like a 10K runner, but I feel certain that the most critical piece in his world records (aside from talent and toghness) were these long hard runs, which a 10K runner would never do. - Ed Parrot
