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Flanagan Getting Ready for Record Test in Berlin - QandA

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Shalane Flanagan Talks Training and Fuel for Berlin

Published by Stride Nation on September 2, 2014

For Shalane Flanagan, the past few years have been a marathon of new records and personal bests.

The elite U.S. female runner set the event record at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon in Houston with a time of 2:25:38. A year later, she ran a half marathon personal best of 1:08:31 at the Rock 'n' Roll Mardi Gras Marathon in New Orleans, and claimed her fourth USATF title in the 10,000 meters event.

With her stellar performance at the 2014 Boston Marathon behind her (she finished seventh after leading much of the race), Flanagan hopes to take the U.S. women's marathon record (2:19:36, set by Deena Kastor in the 2006 London Marathon) at the 2014 Berlin Marathon on Sept. 28.

Stride Nation spoke with Flanagan in August about everything from training and fuel for Berlin, to Boston and the occasional beer.

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A little over a month to go before Berlin. How are you feeling?

Good, really good! I've had some benchmark workouts to let me know where I'm at. I'm ahead of my Boston training and gearing towards a certain pace that would warrant a pretty big PR. If all goes well, I stay healthy, catch a good day and good weather, I'm excited about the possibilities.

Berlin's an interesting race. It's so flat and level, which is why there's a strong history of records there. What have you been doing for elevation training?

For me, it's more about turnover. I think the tricky part about flat courses is that there's no reprieve. Your muscles are firing like a piston continuously. There's no up or downhill to rest the gears of your muscles. A lot of my harder efforts have been on really flat courses to stimulate using the same muscles over and over and having my legs turnover. I've done some high altitude training. Went to Park City, Utah for one month. Now I'm in Flagstaff, Ariz. for another month in preparation.

With six weeks to go, "typical" is a bad word to use, so I won't ask you what a "typical week of training" consists of. Instead, take us through what the past week consisted of.

Monday and Tuesday were typical doubles. Wednesday I had a really hard track session, comprised of some mile repeats and three-mile repeats. That was also the day I got to altitude here in Flagstaff, so I had to take that into account. Typical doubles again until Saturday, on which I had a three hour-progression run and covered about 27 miles. Sunday was a light double day. Mixed in with all that running, about two to three times a week I go to the gym for core work. There's really only one specific session for developing my leg speed or marathon pace, then one day is my long strength session. Some are easier or harder than others.



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