If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

In 1972 he received Finland's Grand Master of the Order of the White Rose of Finland. However most importantly the new training methods were picked up by the trainers of Pekka Vasala and Lasse Virén's coach Rolf Haikkola. Distance Training for Young Athletes.

His training methods are based on a strong endurance base and periodisation. 6s. Lydiard competed in the Men's Marathon at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland coming thirteenth with a time of 2h:54m:51.