{"id":22994,"date":"2017-09-07T19:17:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runnerstribe.com\/?p=22994"},"modified":"2021-01-12T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:17:21","slug":"before-gregson-mottram-the-training-of-simon-doyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/expert-advice\/before-gregson-mottram-the-training-of-simon-doyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Gregson & Mottram: The Training of Simon Doyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the early nineties, Queenslander Simon Doyle was a serious player at a global level over 1500m. Doyle that year won three Grand Prix races and finished 4<\/span>th<\/span> at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland. In 1991, Doyle finished 12<\/span>th<\/span> at the World Athletics Championships final in Tokyo. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was also in 1991, that Doyle set a new Australian 1500m (3:31.96) and one-mile (3:49.91) records, in Stockholm on July 3 then Oslo on July 6. Doyle\u2019s Mile record has only been bettered once since, by the one and only Craig Mottram, when Buster clocked 3:48.98 in 2005, also in Oslo. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Doyle\u2019s 1500m record was to stand for 19 years; it took the prodigious talent of one Ryan Gregson, to displace him from the top of the leader board.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite never winning a major championship medal, Doyle was a major force in Australia, winning the 800\/1500m double at the 1991 Australian Championships \u2013 an achievement that has only been equalled once since (Jeff Riseley in 2015).<\/span><\/p>\n

We took a look back at Doyle\u2019s training with example weeks of training provided for each of his main three training phases. <\/span><\/p>\n

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