Race Before Your Big One

So what you do is create blocks of races. Once you are in shape, you are in shape. Then you can go for weeks, and that’s what we do. So now you look at the calendar, if you need to go the championships, you need to go to the trials. To go to the trials you need some build-up races before you go to the trials to make sure you qualify. -Dieter Hogen, who coaches a number of African and European runners, is founder of KIMba Athletics (interview from Running Times)