You guys never heard of LT1 cooldown? American running is still in Dark Ages, only competitive thanks to USADA.
Yeah, maybe 5*45 sec or something like that. Not 3-8k worth -- especially because this was three days before what was the guaranteed last race of the season. Pretty weird if true.
From someone who personally knows athletes that have trained with Lewandowski, I've never heard of them doing something like that after a race. Only thing I've heard is some zone 2 running, which is just to get a bit of aerobic stimulus
Doing threshold work after races is fairly common, but I question the practicality of it in Tokyo’s hot conditions, especially between heats and the semi-finals. If he really did 8k, that seems like a coaching error.
I’d also like to understand why he dropped out of the 5k — my impression is that it was simply exhaustion. He tried to go with Fisher, but the pace was too demanding.
Looking back on his performance, I’m not convinced he was fully prepared for the conditions. Competing in that kind of humidity is an entirely different challenge.
Right, so if threshold = fastest pace where blood lactate plateaus but does not increase, then a pace that clears lactate would have to be slower than threshold.
You're thinking of Anerobic threshold or LT2.
This would be Aerobic threshold or LT1.
Mike Smith's group commonly ends anerobic workouts with a "flush mile" at T pace. This faster but still aerobic running clears excess lactate faster than a slow jog.
You don’t have to worry… lactate clears without any of your fancy running terminology. Do some real research before making your decision to start sounding like you know about clearance and flushing.
You guys never heard of LT1 cooldown? American running is still in Dark Ages, only competitive thanks to USADA.
No, no one in America has ever incorporated threshold after the main part of a workout. We’re too busy injecting epo and looking for training advice from the much smarter Europeans.
Yeah I’m gunna go ahead and discard the comment from Kara altogether unless I see or hear another source confirming it. Kara makes mistakes all the time on the podcast. When previewing USAs she didn’t even know Lexy Halladay-Lowry’s name. Anybody who has a running podcast previewing the steeple at the U.S. champs and claims to follow the sport should know who she is. Point is, she could have mixed up Laros with Jakob, which make a LOT more sense. Or maybe it was 3-8 MINUTES not k’s.
Bad post.
She literally saw them in person.
Jakob doesn't train with Laros's group, duh.
Pretty hard to confuse Laros, Cheruiyot and Nillson with another group of three runners, lol.
And she is very explicit that her estimates are km, not minutes. (Did you even watch the clip??)
This commentary makes no sense and some of this critique is probably inspired by her own Salazar coaching errors .
Look you have 10+ guys entered w <3:30 capability and several world 1500 champions in the field Habz and Koech out early…
So if Hocker disqualified himself, Kerr is injured and Ingebrigtsen decides to sandbag the first round to set up his 5000 it’s Wightman who becomes the true favorite.
Laros will have a great career and there’s certainly room for training improvements but he made no serious blunders other than running to the outside of his training partner and perhaps not pushing harder earlier.
Plot twist Jakob sandbagged the 1500 and can run a good 5k