David Rudisha says he's running more mileage in 2017 than in recent years as his knee is feeling better

LetsRun.com wrote:

Rudisha said he believes he is in even better form than last year, when he glided away from the field to win his second Olympic gold in Rio in 1 minute 42.16 seconds - his fastest time since the London Olympics when he smashed his own world record (1:40.91).

"I have changed my training. I do a lot more mileage again," said Rudisha. "It is an aspect I lacked since I injured my knee in 2013. I have always had pain whenever I make long runs. But it is gone now, I can now put more work in during training and I am really happy."

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/12/c_136360055.htm

What sort of mileage?

How long are these long runs?

The article never inquired.

I like Rudisha.

Why is he doing higher mileage? Didn't Canova say that too much mileage is bad for speed based 800 runners? Rudisha is going to ruin his fast twitch fibers. It would only make sense if he plans to move up, but he'd be mediocre at best in the 1500.

He amazes me as a runner, because, originally, he didn't want to be an 800 meter runner. Most Africans don't want to run anything shorter than 1500m.

He is 28 years old. If he were to move up in distance after this year, I think he would have some success at it.

[quote]lsd = long slow runner wrote:

Why is he doing higher mileage? Didn't Canova say that too much mileage is bad for speed based 800 runners? Rudisha is going to ruin his fast twitch fibers. [quote]

This is nonsense, even Michael Johnson from the sounds of things ran aerobically in the off season. Seb Coe ran 18 miles on Christmas Day 1979 because he had the paranoid thought that Ovett was doing this distance on that day.

scorpion_runner wrote:He amazes me as a runner, because, originally, he didn't want to be an 800 meter runner. Most Africans don't want to run anything shorter than 1500m

i'm sure most Kenyans woud want to run shortest race possible but because they don't do any weight-training they don't generally excel at distances below 800

Korir in his post win interview at NCAA said that he is doing weight-training at UTEP which he never did in Kenya as there was no multigym in his camp

Korir didn't say it explicitly but it is obvious he puts huge amount of his success to doing weight-training - look at the neck on the guy !!!

Big-Man can up the mileage but to compensate & maintain speed he will need to incorporate some weight-training

scorpion_runner wrote:

He amazes me as a runner, because, originally, he didn't want to be an 800 meter runner. Most Africans don't want to run anything shorter than 1500m.

He is 28 years old. If he were to move up in distance after this year, I think he would have some success at it.

He wanted to be a 400 runner actually. CoC made him try it, and he ran like a 1:50 or something as a 15 yr old.

Lofl at everyone thinking they know better than Rudisha and Brother Colm 😂😂😂😂😂😂