Over the last couple of decades, I have been traveling around the world, preaching my training method.  I have traveled extensively through Europe, Asia and spent several months touring around the USA every summer in the 70s and 80s.  Now as it becomes more and more difficult for me to move about, due to my health condition and artificial knees; there has been a growing need to accumulate and preserve my method in an easy-to-understand manner to a wider range of audience. 

I am pleased to see this program taken up by a couple of my dedicated and trusting followers in the USA.  Nobuya “Nobby” Hashizume has been studying my training method since 1981 when he first wrote to me from Washington State where he was going to school.  He traveled to New Zealand and spent 12 months with me and my original runners and, upon returning to Japan, served as a professional running coach for a Japanese corporate team.  Nobby has been one of the biggest promoters of my training method.  Lorraine Moller is one of the most celebrated female athletes New Zealand has ever produced, winning 16 international marathons during her long and prosperous 28 years of athletic career with the Olympic marathon bronze medal in 1992 at the age of 37.  She has employed my basic training principles ever since she was a teenager.  Lorraine has also been coaching a group of runners in the highland of Colorado on my training method with success.

I am confident that they could keep the legacy of the Lydiard Method and serve people who are eager to learn my training method for the next generations of great athletes.

   All the best,


Arthur L. Lydiard
– Order of British Empire
– New Zealand Olympic Coach
– Chief Coach, Finnish A.A. Federation
– Danish Olympic Coach
– National Coach, Mexico
– National Coach, Venezuela