Famous elite athletes in lots of different running events and what sort of training they do in order to hit their peak performance.

There are an enormous amount of successful, elite athletes from around the world in many different running events, however, I decided to choose a few of my favourite runners to show you their typical weekly training sessions and how much effort they put in to perform at their best.

http://www.eurosport.com/athletics/world-championships/2015/mo-farah-s-mobot-is-magical-britain-s-greatest-athlete-could-yet-get-greater_sto4873432/story.shtml

Mo Farah

Mo Farah is both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic champion in the 5000m and 10000m.


His total weekly mileage ranges from 126 to 135 miles each week.
I recently watched the new Mo Farah movie called ''No Easy Mile'' and featured in it was Mo Farah's typical training session for each week. I was shocked when I found out that he trains 2 times a day, 7 days a week!


Monday's usually consist of a 10 mile recovery run in the morning followed by a 6 mile recovery run in the evening.

Tuesday's include a 3-4mile warm-up, followed by a 8-12mile threshold run, and then a 3mile cool-down run. After this he usually has a 60minute strength and conditioning session, and finishes off his day with a 6mile run in the evening.


Wednesday's start off with a 12mile easy recovery run and then consists of a 5mile easy run in the evening.


Thursday's are usually the same as Wednesday's but with a 11mile run in the morning instead of 12.


A Friday session for Mo Farah starts off with a track session consisting of a 4mile warm-up run, 10x200m sprint intervals, 10x200m hill sprints, and a 4mile cool-down. He would then have another 60minute strength and conditioning session and later would have an easy 4mile run.


On Saturday's Mo runs an easy 11miles in the morning and then 6miles recovery in the evening.


Sunday is Mo's long run day so he usually runs anything from 22-27miles!




Thomas Barr
Thomas Barr is another elite athlete that I admire. He competed in his first ever Olympics in Rio in 2016 and came 4th in the final, missing out on a bronze medal by just 0.05 seconds. He set a new national record of 47.97seconds for Ireland and shows bright hopes for the future as he is only 24 and it is just the beginning of his career as an elite athlete.
He trains 6 days a week with Saturday as his rest day.
From reading my latest ''Irish Runner Magazine'' I learnt a lot about how Thomas trains in order to compete at his optimum level of performance.

https://www.balls.ie/olympics/irish-in-action-on-day-13-343226

On Mondays he has a strength and conditioning session in the morning and a speed running session on the track in the evening.
For Tuesdays his morning session is a plyometric session and in the evening he does a circuit session
On Wednesdays Thomas has a medicine ball session in the morning and finishes with a technical running session on the track in the evening
Thursdays consist of another medicine ball session in the morning and then a speed running session in the evening
On Friday morning he has either a strength and conditioning session or a rehab session and then in the evening has a plyometric session
Saturday is the only day a week that Thomas has to rest and recover.
Thomas' racing season is during the summer months so throughout this period he focuses on technical speed work on Sundays whereas in the winter months his Sunday sessions are hill sessions.


Tirunesh Dibaba
Tirunesh Dibaba is not only the first woman to win double gold in the 5000m and 10000m events in the Olympics, but is also the youngest female to become a world champion in athletics. She is from Ethiopia. In an interview with ''Running Times'' in 2012, Dibaba went through her training regime. In my opinion her training seems to be very varied and consists of lots of track work, trail runs, and gym work.

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/kFPg3v6-Aze/Olympics+Day+7+Athletics/fTJ0CTtZAly/Tirunesh+Dibaba

During a typical week of training Tirunesh would usually do two track sessions which focus on speed work, two gym sessions to focus on strength and conditioning, one long run which would normally last for 90minutes, and then she would have a couple of other easy runs in the woods, trails, and paths. Her morning sessions are for 60minutes whereas her evening sessions are 40/50minutes.