TL;DW
Someone ask him if he was on P.E.D.'s in high school.
This looks awesome. Thanks for sharing! I’ll listen to the first 30 during lunch break today ?
someone needs to turn up Webb's mic.
The audio quality of the video sucks. Listen to the podcast. Webb explains his training in good detail.
this shìt is boring
Good interview, very frank and thorough. Alan is a very personable guy who busted some epic sessions.
Entertaining description of a 20x400 session with Raszko where he goes through the halfway in the final rep in 23.xx.....
This was great. Opposed to the recent AW interviews, this one seemed much more natural
What's the deal with the shades?
From what I could hear, he was also doing something like 7 hours a week of swimming intervals in 2005 and 2006 while (later on each day) also doing running workouts. He'd do maybe 5 sessions a week of 1 1/4-1 1/2 hours a day, starting at 6:30 a.m. with a group of masters' swimmers. That would have very much increased his aerobic capacities, as well as getting his heart rate up very high, without any impact and probably contributed to his 27:34 10000m.
Jeremy R wrote:
This was great. Opposed to the recent AW interviews, this one seemed much more natural
This is Webb at his most relaxed and open. He's chatting with two friends and it comes across that way.
So you're saying he looked relaxed?
Any mention of Marcus quoting Webb having a 55 hematocrit?
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8627483&page=4
smcrunner88 wrote:
So you're saying he looked relaxed?
Well done
...is Webb?
Interesting and great insights into what it took for him to get to the top, and then try to go over the top.
It worked for him, but was not sustainable for very long.
Also includes interesting comparison between him and Wheating. Both have mentioned as runners who did not fully live up to expectations based on talent, but found success using very different training.
He starts slowly and with reservation, but then gets rolling..
He seems very Type A. Extremely meticulous. Tried to cover every little detail. He would do a pre warm up just to get ready for the actual warm up. He would run a pre workout the day before a big workout to prep him for the big workout. Seemed to train like a gardener who digs up his carrots frequently to see if they are still growing.
His running form always seemed stiff and mechanical too.
It works for him, and this may be about as relaxed as he gets.
It sounds like he had obsessive compulsive disorder, which is common in runners.
That mental problem leads to massive overtraining... and constant changing of coaches.
He could never control his mind in big races and never did well at the Olympics...even with a hematocrit of 55%.
He had some of the worst tactics ever seen in the history of running.
Alan now wants to be your personal coach at a cost of $470.00 for 1 month.