THIS TEXT IS AUTOMATICALLY TRANSLATED WITH GOOGLE TRANSLATORby Christian Brüngger
It was a false start for Viktor Röthlin one day after his European Championship-Gold. When the marathon when boarding at the airport of Barcelona showed his ticket - he had been aufgestuft to Business Class - was he dismissed at first. After a few phone calls of ground but it ran around: 1:40 hours later, he celebrated his fan club in Kloten, and radio and TV journalists provided to a contest to see who could push him closer to the microphone to his face. Röthlin wife Renate looked amused at this activity as well as Father Nicholas. His son remained loose, presented his medal and spoke again of his sovereign race.
The basis for this success he had placed in the weeks before in countless training sessions. The base model has for the preparation for the European Championship of 2006 always similar, because in Barcelona the 35-year-old has already passed his 19th Marathon. Röthlin has long since figured out how he steuernmuss the formal structure, to be in umexaktzumSaisonhöhepunkt Topverfassung. In an early phase, he runs up to 160 km per week. The marathon specific units but still largely missing. This "warm up" phase includes Röthlin you up with one run in the spring it is usually reviewed by the Grand Prix of Bern, to his current Bossert.
1,000-meter runs as a toughening
Then the specific marathon preparation. It runs, with some exceptions, following the same standardized schema. The three preparation cycles from four weeks have almost the same structure: They consist of long, fast and loose training. Once completed a week Röthlin a so-called long run. The distance of a cycle it increases from week to week within a 30-over 35 to 38 km. In the fourth week, he leaves out this long training.
The long runs, he runs at about 90 percent of marathon pace. Has he reached the second cycle, and he feels it's all right enough, he adds these long runs, directly or 3 times 1000 meters in a fast pace of slightly less than three minutes. They should also toughen him be a mental challenge and help if he needs to bite into a marathon. In such training, he thinks in the difficult stages of the race you.
These long runs are usually two quick sessions a week, tends in the marathon pace or slightly faster. 15 times 3 minutes can be such a unit, 3 x 5 km plus 1 times 2 times 1 km or 8 km on the track. Shorter distances Röthlin shall not return.
The other units designated national coach Fritz Schmocker as "filler training. They take place at a leisurely pace for Röthlin. In these days of running loose, he also works in the weight room. On average, he comes to 30 km per day, up to 220 km and a maximum of 13 training sessions per week.
Training Partner employed
Every cycle it concludes with a regeneration week in which he reduces the load - but not the circumference. He leaves out the long run and minimize the strain of rapid training to help with this delicate coordination between too little and too much not to, overflow, and his body hurt.
With all this training of the Kenyan Abraham Tandoi is. He got hired as Röthlin training partner. Tandoi functioned primarily in its early days also when his pacemaker during the marathon. Tandoi be paid for by Röthlin, also lives at his home and his boss could at least in the shorter race to defeat already.
Just because many courses are standardized tests, and he always wins and installs on the basis of data of the pulse, and lactate values more information to assess his current form almost exactly. He also adds these values into a system that he himself has developed. This one spits out each time he would reach under optimal conditions.
Big change
Despite the familiar processes resolved Viktor Röthlin for the European Championship a big change: In previous marathons, he slept in the last 12 weeks at 2500 m, trained at 1,800 m. This time it is, apart from the "Füllläufen" for the other units, always descended to 300 meters. Thus fell the adjustment path to the altitude, he could run faster training and get used to the ideal heat. (Tages-Anzeiger)
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