Pretty sure I watched a video of the University of Texas head coach immediately after his DMR won an indoor national championship and he said his miler group took a big step forward because he upped their mileage, and that clutch anchor Yaseen Abdalla was a walk on who started running 100mpw on the treadmill and outkicked a bunch of 3:55 guys.
Even El G couldn't come through at 2:45. He wanted a 2:46 rabbit (which is what he ended up coming through in in his WR), but he was the only person who could do such a thing.
Was running 100 miles a week non including morning or afternoon jogs
I talked about this with Peter close to 20 years ago. He told me he was not happy that Arthur told people that. He told me that 100 miles in a week was about as much as he ever ran and said that he counted every step. For many of Arthur's other guys it was true that they did 100 in their main sessions and added more miles with a second easier run but it was not true for Peter.
Has anyone been successful in the 1500+ running low miles?
Many athletes have, if you consider under 70 mpw "low miles." Bernard Lagat ran 60-70 mile weeks. Laura Muir runs 50-60 (outside of base training) on 6 days of training a week. Jake Wightman historically didn't do monster mileage, but credits last year's winter where he upped it to his breakthrough season this year. The way the event is going does seem to point to more athletes running 70mpw+ with the strength needed to run faster rounds than historically we see and a 3:29-3:31 final and not a 3:35+ one.
Joe Klecker's running log showed a peak of around 105, but the majority was very close to that, 95-105. I've found top end 5,000-10,000 meter runners are typically 90-110 miles. Jakob being 115 is the highest I've really ever seen, especially for a 1500-5k guy that doesn't really go beyond the 5k at the moment.
Joe Klecker's running log showed a peak of around 105, but the majority was very close to that, 95-105. I've found top end 5,000-10,000 meter runners are typically 90-110 miles. Jakob being 115 is the highest I've really ever seen, especially for a 1500-5k guy that doesn't really go beyond the 5k at the moment.
Even more remarkable was Marcin Lewandowski to me. He used to run 105-110 mpw in his winter season as an 800m runner. I think a great what-if is if he’d went to the 1500 earlier. I do think he would’ve been a real threat considering how well he ran in his 30s.
Maybe. Coe ran more than was generally acknowledged. Lydiard saw the logs in 1991 and told me there were several weeks where total mileage got to 90 and that 70 was really the low end. Peter Coe acknowledged this in a letter to Track and Field News in the 90s saying that people misunderstood what they'd been doing and that they did a lot more aerobic work than people knew. And David Martin, who co-wrote the training book with Peter Coe, told me that what Coe did was much like Lydiard's training. That 40-50 mile week stuff that we all heard about was from just one part of the year. You could have said the same thing about Snell who also spent part of his years at that sort of volume.
We're starting with the supposed fact "Jakob Ingebrigtsen runs 115 mpw", but that's pretty vague. 115 miles every week? A few weeks at 115 during the build-up for track season?
What I'm saying is, it would not be surprising at all if he did a 115-mile week. It would be very surprising if he averaged 115 miles a week year-round. We need more details.
Bro he's Norwegian, Norwegian endurance athletes get a good chunk of their training philosophy from XC skiing. It would not surprise me at all if he did more than 115 mpw during much of the year. Especially for someone like Jakob where he's probably averaging 6 min miles for his easy base miles, that works out to be about two 45 minute runs a day. If you think that is a lot of time on feet, y'all need to train with XC skiers sometime and report back.
Pretty sure I watched a video of the University of Texas head coach immediately after his DMR won an indoor national championship and he said his miler group took a big step forward because he upped their mileage, and that clutch anchor Yaseen Abdalla was a walk on who started running 100mpw on the treadmill and outkicked a bunch of 3:55 guys.
Pretty sure those guys were completely overcooked by outdoor season, didn’t score a single distance point at nationals, their team failed to win the meet for the first time in the history of the program at least partially because of that, and the coach had to bail and go to BU before it became abundantly clear that he doesn’t really have a coherent system and he’s just pushing high mileage in a way that amounts to throwing eggs at the wall.