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Pete Pfitzinger’s marathon training, applied to your mileage, your long runs and your real week through Ottavia.
Pete Pfitzinger
Olympic marathoner. Exercise physiologist. Author.
For Pete Pfitzinger the marathon is built twice: endurance from steady mileage and long runs, and race pace from lifting your lactate threshold. Easy days stay genuinely easy so the hard ones can count.
Pete Pfitzinger is an American exercise physiologist, coach and two-time Olympic marathoner. He was the top US finisher at both the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and won the 1984 US Olympic Trials marathon in 2:11:43, outkicking the heavily favoured Alberto Salazar over the final 50 yards. He is a member of the RRCA and Cornell Athletics halls of fame.
His MS research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was on lactate-threshold measurement, the physiological idea at the core of his training: build endurance through mileage and long runs, and raise race pace by lifting lactate-threshold pace. With Scott Douglas and Philip Latter he wrote Advanced Marathoning, Faster Road Racing and Road Racing for Serious Runners, and he coaches marathon and half-marathon runners through Pfitzinger Coaching.
Two-time Olympic marathonerTop US finisher at the 1984 and 1988 Games
Exercise physiologistMS in exercise science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Winner, 1984 US Olympic Marathon Trials2:11:43, ahead of Alberto Salazar
Co-author, Advanced MarathoningWith Faster Road Racing and Road Racing for Serious Runners
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