Forget lactate testing and double threshold, this is the secret to the “Norwegian Method”

Lurker42 wrote:

Badcompany wrote:

This. Nobody cares about Tri. So, these guys can't diddle themselves about being elite athletes when they’re really just 225 Marathoners.

Racing a bike for 100+ miles and then running that fast takes some serious resiliency.

Yes in the sense of pure sport it's more cumbersome than road racing or biking etc.

But it's a pretty impressive test of endurance fitness that is increasingly being raced more than it's paced. Pick your favorite runner and they'd be humbled badly if they tried it.

Yaaawn wrote:

Jesus that was a long way to say a whole lotta nothing. I've read Outsides articles, but find myself always thinking at best the articles about training "secrets, breakthroughs, new methods etc" usually can be summarized to "heres a short study done on 6 people and perhaps this thing might do something, but we don't really know" and this article says just about nothing useful - about half is boring fluff, that could've easily been cut.

I also wonder how any ultra-runners or triathletes would fare if they focused on traditional distances or just one sport. My own inclination is that they would at best "Also-rans" and not really anyone you should take something from, not that I don't respect what they do, but i would not take a "life changing revelation" so serious from a guy who went from 2:20 to 2:15 either.

Lurker42 wrote:

Badcompany wrote:

This. Nobody cares about Tri. So, these guys can't diddle themselves about being elite athletes when they’re really just 225 Marathoners.

Racing a bike for 100+ miles and then running that fast takes some serious resiliency.

Yes in the sense of pure sport it's more cumbersome than road racing or biking etc.

But it's a pretty impressive test of endurance fitness that is increasingly being raced more than it's paced. Pick your favorite runner and they'd be humbled badly if they tried it.