He runs some kind of high level quality everyday. He does consecutive long tempo runs. No recovery days at all.
http://pa.milesplit.com/articles/160894-xc-journal-dominic-hockenbury-lake-lehman-entry-1
He runs some kind of high level quality everyday. He does consecutive long tempo runs. No recovery days at all.
http://pa.milesplit.com/articles/160894-xc-journal-dominic-hockenbury-lake-lehman-entry-1
He can't spell fartlek. Does he actually call it farklet in conversation too?
No doubt this kid will either be very good this year or injured. No way he can continue this kind of intensity for years on end and most likely his best days will be left behind him in HS. It's going to be sad day once he realizes that your body can't keep improving upon that kind of volume with intensity daily as you get older. Kinda sad. Who is giving this kid direction? He makes it sound like he trains himself.
why do u care?
geetar wrote:
why do u care?
Maybe because this is a running website. People may post questions about athletes training logs and create a conversation about them. Just a hunch though..
only time will tell if it is too much, but I would also be concerned about the lack of recovery.
Actually, his training looks very similar to what the best runners have been doing for decades.
What is kinda sad is not that he will inevitably fail, but that you think you are some kinda expert.
Our cross country team competes against him, he dominates everyone.
Pa. xc fan wrote:
He runs some kind of high level quality everyday. He does consecutive long tempo runs. No recovery days at all.
http://pa.milesplit.com/articles/160894-xc-journal-dominic-hockenbury-lake-lehman-entry-1
Yes. Agree with you.
There's a great story in the beginning of the book about Bill Bowerman and the Men of Oregon where he had an athlete that was overtraining.
I won't spoil the story for you, but let's just say Bowerman was right.
It's not possible to judge whether someone is "overtraining" by looking at their training logs, especially since people lie all the time when they log their runs.
Pa. xc fan wrote:
He runs some kind of high level quality everyday. He does consecutive long tempo runs. No recovery days at all.
http://pa.milesplit.com/articles/160894-xc-journal-dominic-hockenbury-lake-lehman-entry-1
He's probably overtraining, but it works decently enough for him- he was an indoor New Balance All-American and is a 3 time state champion. We'll see how his season goes.
Yes overtraining wrote:
geetar wrote:why do u care?
Maybe because this is a running website. People may post questions about athletes training logs and create a conversation about them. Just a hunch though..
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don't know, but wrote:
He can't spell fartlek. Does he actually call it farklet in conversation too?
Dunno. But he really needs to lose that cheesy Chariots of Fire finish line presentation. Bad acting.
http://citizensvoice.com/polopoly_fs/1.1692159!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_490/image.jpg
Does he have a history of being injured? If so, then we slow down. Otherwise yeah, it's a lot of miles, but not of touch with a HSer who lives, eats, breathes and sleeps it, which this kid obviously does. I don't buy into the concerns about him getting quality work in everyday, but if I'm his coach, Sundays are off. If he simply can't sit still, he goes on the bike or in the pool on Sundays.
Personally know this kid and he takes good care of his body and hasn't been injured in the last four years that I've known him, just has the genetics to handle that mileage and intensity I guess. Best of luck to him in the future.
I love Kenny Moore's story but if, "Our cross country team competes against him, he dominates everyone." is correct then he most likely is not over training.
He writes things like 20 x 1 min at 5k pace but he doesn't write how much rest he takes and he may just be beating the #2 guy's 5k pace.
Lets say he is going to run 15:30 at Footlocker regionals and the next best guy on his team is going to run 17:00. Even if his coach is bad, he won't let him just run away from everyone and drag the rest of the team into over training behind him.
The other thing is that Kenny was more of a fast twitch guy than most marathoners so he benefited more from rest days. There are some true marathoners like Carlos Lopes that need to run hardish most every day.
Pa. xc fan wrote:
He runs some kind of high level quality everyday. He does consecutive long tempo runs. No recovery days at all.
http://pa.milesplit.com/articles/160894-xc-journal-dominic-hockenbury-lake-lehman-entry-1
It worked for Lindgren... but he was nuts.
90mpw and he'll probably end up running 15:30 or something and get injured. Not worth it. This is why XC sucks.
97 mi in eight runs, mostly quality + some cross training. What are this kid's 1600 and 3200 PRs?
RunningAntelope wrote:
97 mi in eight runs, mostly quality + some cross training. What are this kid's 1600 and 3200 PRs?
1600: 4:20.21 (2015)
3200: 9:06.52 (2015)