LSD for 5k runners?

What workouts are done at the different paces?

if you want the answers to all of coes training buy his dads book "better training for distance runners". it will answer everything about multi-pace/5 pace training you could possibly ask.

as for coes mileage im not saying the 75 mpw's arent true but everything ive read from frank horwill who i believe worked closely with the coes says that he never ran higher than 90km a week which is about 56 miles.

also coe was once quoted as saying "I've never run more than 7-miles, and that was 6-miles to far. I have always felt that long, slow distance, produces long slow runners"

and this:

"in his book "Running Free, Seb wrote, "I needed leg speed. My stride leg length was never a problem, but on occasion, maintaining a fast cadence was." Said Peter, "You can no longer go up in distance to hide from speed. It's speed, speed, speed." Even his "base work" running was at a very quick 5:15 to 5:30 per mile tempo. "

The long run, atleast for athletes with some backgound, is suppost to be done at aerobic conditioning pace, which varies as to your LT pace and your goal time for a distance (say your 1500m goal time in May). It's usually 60-90sec slower than your LT pace.

LSD is always good. It frees your mind and your body, taking you to places you never thought you could go. Keep up with the LSD, and don't listen to what those politicians and DARE people say. LSD is very good for you,...unless you get one of those really f'd up trips.

...marius bakken, who has worked closely with seb coe's dad, says that seb never counted warmup/cooldown miles in his totals... so, those 70-75 mile weeks may have been closer to 90... as for the 20-milers, i don't know...