Ryan Hall believes shorter distance interval repeats (400m, 200m) are more important for marathoners than longer repeats.

“I've kind of since like gravitated more towards shorter distance repeats 400s 200s things like that I think that's way more important for marathoners because you kind of want a lot of differential between how fast those Tuesday intervals are compared to your like Thursday or Friday threshold prior to your departure when they were one mile repeats and 1K repeats”

“I think that's way more important for marathoners because you kind of want a lot of differential between how fast those Tuesday intervals are compared to your like Thursday or Friday threshold prior to your departure when they were one mile repeats and 1K repeats”

“so that's why that 5K speed like I can't emphasize it enough with my athletes like you just you have the further away I got from that 5K Fitness the harder the half felt the harder the marathon felt”

“one workout that I implemented instead of saying like those Tuesday short sessions which just might been a little bit again I think I got too far away from 5K Fitness I should have spent more time developing that but but this workout I absolutely love for marathoning where I do 20 by 1,000 Metter with uh 200 meter easy jog between each th000 meter and that was done at faster than marathon pace so the goal is to like drive your threshold down so you spend all this time doing threshold running a certain pace and then you're going just a tad bit quicker than that for these broken up thresholds and uh much quicker”

“actually I think I was pretty successful most days right but I think a lot of that is because I wasn't trying to bite off more than I can chew right like I wasn't trying to hit home runs and workouts like they were workouts where I was kind of set up to see success and often too like my thresholds would just get better every time I would attempt it right um as the mil buildup is going I'm getting stronger I'm getting in better shape I'm also getting lighter which is making things a little bit easier and so usually I was seeing pretty good progress from uh that 12 12we buildup”

“i've kind of since like gravitated more towards shorter distance repeats 400s 200s things like that i think that's way more important for marathoners”