It's not a "dumb shit response," it's just practical. I also much appreciated the posts by Malmo and HRE and Wejo and Hodge and others, but I'm baffled by how you can get any inspiration from a fictitious windbag. In fact, it's that sort of fake crap that HS runners and college runners in lower-end programs blindly follow and either end up terribly injuring themselves, or killing their chance for improvement and wasting a lot of time. The dude's a douche and it's ridiculous that anyone got any inspiration from his made up crap and shameless promotion of the Nike Free. I could come on here and write a 4 page story about how I ran 250 mpw....would that gain your blind admiration too? Would that inspire you to go out and blast a few 250s?
Malmo's posts were by far the most practical and useful, because they were real and illustrated that he, like you and I, is a HUMAN. Notice how some of his weeks he takes a little easy (it's not a straight line of volume)....notice how it's not the text book, science lab BS that 90% of the people on this site are caught up with trying to follow...how it was undogmatic, unpretentious RUNNING. So many letsrun posters read the page long crap that people like NIKE FREE ME pull out of thier asses instead of getting out the door and actually running...they get caught up with this incredibly lame, impractical, structuralized system that some complete fake (who goes to great lengths to not reveal his name, writing 10 paragraph essays on how he has some higher knowledge and we are fools for asking, as if he were Jiddu Krishnamurti or something)...then, after they're done digesting that, they get caught up with the existential reflection of what it would be like to run 140 miles day in and EXCRRRRRUUUUCIATINNNGG (gorsh!) day out. It's a waste.
This is a great thread....I love the posts by the people who actually have done high, high mileage, and I enjoy that their posts and advice lack pretense. To them, I'm pretty fricken' grateful.