2020 TSMA

66 2020 Taiwan Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association One large -scaled marathon in fact is like a student who needs to prepare the final achievement performance over a semester. The marathon training is year after year. With regard to one competition the training schedule is usually designed for sixteen to twenty weeks, just like a student who go through a 4-or 5-month semester. And a competition is to present the training achievement at the end of the training circle. Marathon training has been progressive in these decades. In addition to running, the sports knowledge of the muscular strength, recovery, nutrition, and sleep also developed fast with huge success. In 1920, Hannes Kolehmainen created a historical record of marathon for finishing a marathon in two hours and thirty two minutes. In 2018, in the Berlin Marathon, Eliud Kipchoge created a world marathon record for two hours and one minute. In other words, when the marathon king one hundred years ago, Hannes Kolehmainen finished a marathon, Eliud Kipchoge already with new dress finished all the interviews with the media press and was ready to get back to the hotel and rest. In 2020, the Olympic male running qualification is adjusted to an even higher level of two hours and eleven minutes. All the top marathon runners before 1965 would not be qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games. It is a pity that for the moment, the Taiwanese record is two hours and fifteen minutes. Within a short period of time, there will not be any Taiwanese athlete is qualified to run for the Olympic marathon. Apart from the technology progress in sports apparel and running shoes as well as the thirty- year backward knowledge of sports nutrition. The progress of all these years has turned knowledge- based trainings into periodization. To target two or three marathons every year, it is necessary to make an annual plan for participation in the competitions first. Then as estimated, four or five months shall be managed as the middle plan for the target marathons. Then the monthly plan, or the weekly plan or a short period plan could be adjusted based on the current state.