A few years back I was at a forum that had as it's guest of honer A. Lyidard. And he stated something very intresting. Coe and Adita(sp) might say they only run 50 or sixty miles a week, but I think that is a buch of bull. And even if they did if if only two guys out of all the olimpic champs training useing that mode, and got good results. Then it would seem to be a bad gamble to train in mannor that only two guys used to ge to the top.
Now I am not trying to start up a mileage debate, since I feel that for some 70 miles a week is a lot while for others 100 miles a week is a little. Even so I still find it a little hard to feel that Coe was really only running 60 or so miles a week and running at the level that he did. Seeing as almost all the other runners he was raceing agenst ran more. And he did not show that he was some sort of freek of nature as a young runner. But I have read things written of his father, and I must say that he seems pritty honest to me. The thing that I find hard to understand is how he could have done so much hard running, and not broken down. And also from wht I understand at a point hard running stops produceing gains and starts to produce declines in fitness. I for one think that Coe really did only run about 60 miles a week since more has been produced running less. I just wonder how the hell he did it.