This weekend more than sixty elite marathon runners and coaches will attend a seminar and training session organised by the Brighton Marathon which includes presentations from two world-class distance coaches.
Luciano Gigliotti, Italy’s most successful marathon coach, who guided both Gelindo Bordin and Stefano Baldini to Olympic marathon titles, will speak on Preparation for Elite Marathon Runners.
Malcolm Brown, a former UKA distance coach and now Olympic Performance Manager for British Triathlon, will share some ideas about how marathon runners can learn lessons about training specificity, periodisation and recovery as practised by the world’s best triathletes.
The second part of the weekend is a group training session of 20km timed on a measured course along Brighton’s seafront.
The group will be divided into four pace sub-groups (from 4:15min/km to 3:30min/km) and encouraged to practise the progressive pace increase which was a hallmark of Baldini’s marathon career that also brought him a European marathon title in 2006 and a PB of 2:07:22.
A few places are still available for the seminar which gets underway at 5pm on Saturday 14th January at the Brighton Hilton Metropole.
The weekend, which is being supported by England Athletics, is aimed at elite and sub-elite marathon runners and coaches.
Anyone wishing to attend should contact Richard Nerurkar at richard.nerurkar@groundedevents.co.uk or www.brightonmarathon.co.uk/eliteseminar.php
