Yeah, those incredibly wealthy US marathon runners, raking in those $40-$50K annual salaries, sleeping on their luxurious, full-size mattresses like royalty. If they had hearts of champions, they'd all sleep on the ground in the dirt!
How many move to Kenya or Ethiopia and immerse themselves in that hardened culture? Prancing around flagstaff or sipping lattes in Boulder certainly doesn’t count. It’s a life of sacrifice and discipline that creates a mindset to maximize potential.
No, it’s a life of EPO and other PEDs that maximize potential.
Read his book, he did something like 10 AM and 3 PM for his daily double, which he did for about 10 years.
There's a bit moralizing that goes with the time someone wakes up. Earlier is seen as more virtuous, later seems a bit lazy even if the later riser sleeps less than the earlier one. I was a fan of Mark Nenow one reason being that he did his runs at something like 2:00 PM and 11:00 PM. When I was teaching and supposed to be in school at 7:00 I tried getting up before 6:00 to get a run in. I found I could barely function at work when I did this so I took a page from Nenow and did my main run right after school and my second at maybe 8:00 or 9:00.
i did 35 minutes in the morning at 6, ate a large breakfast, went back to bed till 8 am, off to school.
somehow i was able to go to sleep, and had the day totally under control. relaxed till the after school workout, usually hard.
If you're a professional sportsperson, with all day to train, recover and eat, why would you need to get up at 6am to run?
To get prolonged rest time between the first workout of the day and the second workout of the day so that you can get enough rest time between the second workout of the day and the third workout of the day - duuh ;-P
How many move to Kenya or Ethiopia and immerse themselves in that hardened culture? Prancing around flagstaff or sipping lattes in Boulder certainly doesn’t count. It’s a life of sacrifice and discipline that creates a mindset to maximize potential.
No, it’s a life of EPO and other PEDs that maximize potential.
No, it's not. There is no magic metabolism. But you don't know what metabolism is, do you?
So... my post was removed because I said a mildy offending (but true) thing. Some nations/regions are just that background actor/extra that's never going to become anything special and there's nothing wrong with that. We cannot be all winners.
"We ran twice a day, sometimes three times. Twenty miles a day, sometimes more. There were a couple of 170-mile weeks... All we did was run - run, eat, and sleep." - Frank Shorter detailing his training with Jack Bacheler and Jeff Galloway prior to the 1972 Olympics
If you're a professional sportsperson, with all day to train, recover and eat, why would you need to get up at 6am to run?
A correlation exists somewhere between the US glomming onto "-person" nominals and slow marathon times. I'm too lazy to do the research, but it's there
If you're a professional sportsperson, with all day to train, recover and eat, why would you need to get up at 6am to run?
It's kinda hard to train 3 times a day if you don't get up early to get the first workout in... That's why we have "professionals" we celebrate and pay bonuses to when they place top 10 in races won by amateurs from 3rd world countries.
That's why I find it hilarious that letsrun is always asking how to make track popular, presumably so sub elites can get rich. If anything, the solution is less money, not more.
Look at the east Africans; their lives are incredibly spartan. Americans live too comfortably to be great distance runners. Of their dreams don't become reality, they can still get a college degree and a six figure job.
Of all the sports professions awash with money and big reputation athletes coasting by hidden by subjective performance indicators, you choose to level this at marathon runners?