Ed Whitlock style training

I don't know that this is a "style training" follow up but regardless. I ran with you in 2003 at Scotia when you ran 2:59 - we crossed the line together in fact. After 12 years of continuous running I ran into a stretch of injury issues and now am fining it difficult to find the motivation to get back at it. I am wondering when you came back from your long spells off due to injury how you got back into your routine and what if anything you did to regain the motivation.

Gottarun42 wrote:

what if anything you did to regain the motivation.

Looking at the world record for the next age-group.

bump

Ed, I think you are really neglecting something here. One thing older people (not just older runners) do is to neglect upper body development, to the point that skinny older runners upper body's actually atrophy. A few sets of push-ups and chin-ups daily would do you a world of good.

You can't shovel snow year-round, though that is great for upper body work.

Look at John Teeter from Teeter Hang-ups - a superb, "healthy" looking specimen well into his seventies.

Hey, you guys know you bumped a year old thread, right?

Gottarun42 wrote:

I don't know that this is a "style training" follow up but regardless. I ran with you in 2003 at Scotia when you ran 2:59 - we crossed the line together in fact. After 12 years of continuous running I ran into a stretch of injury issues and now am fining it difficult to find the motivation to get back at it. I am wondering when you came back from your long spells off due to injury how you got back into your routine and what if anything you did to regain the motivation.

I don't know what to say about motivation. When I start back I try to gradually increase my training but I do not have a specific timetable or objective in mind. Rather a general idea that I would like to regain fitness so that I can race as well as I did before. Sometimes progress is agonizingly slow as it is currently. I hope to run another marathon but I am not sure its going to happen the way things are going.

Best of luck and keep trying.

mopak wrote:

Ed, what sort of training were you doing in your younger masters years? Did you move toward longer slower runs as you aged or was that always the basic theme of your training?

When I started running again when I was just over 40 the group I was associated with were middle distance focused. I trained with that race distance in mind. A lot of short intense interval training sessions. This did result in achilles tendon problems. I did not do a lot of racing in my 50's and when I started to run more in my 60's I became more interested in longer distances. co-incidentally I found that doing interval training on the track seemed to make my achilles problem recur

Thanks for sharing.

Mr.Whitlock, Thanks for answering all the questions about your training put to you on this forum. But I'm thinking, why don't you just write a book about both of your "running lives"? Have you ever been approached about doing so? I think it would be a great story.

Sorry if I missed it, but how is your training going of late? Any races on the horizon?

Montego wrote:

Mr.Whitlock, Thanks for answering all the questions about your training put to you on this forum. But I'm thinking, why don't you just write a book about both of your "running lives"? Have you ever been approached about doing so? I think it would be a great story.

There have been several magazine articles which have more or less covered my history. While there may be enough material for an article I really don't think there is enough to fill a book. I can't believe there is enough general interest to make it "commercial" either. In addition I'm no author.

lizard king wrote:

Sorry if I missed it, but how is your training going of late? Any races on the horizon?

Training is up and down. I am finding it difficult to string together an extended period of training before my knee gets a bit sore again. I plan to run the half marathon at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon races on Sept 26th.

Good Luck Mr. Whitlock, let us know how it goes.

hey if you want to break out at 40 years old like he did its simple..... EPO

Ed whitlock wrote:

lizard king wrote:

Sorry if I missed it, but how is your training going of late? Any races on the horizon?

Training is up and down. I am finding it difficult to string together an extended period of training before my knee gets a bit sore again. I plan to run the half marathon at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon races on Sept 26th.

How did it go and how are things now?

Ed whitlock wrote:

Training is up and down. I am finding it difficult to string together an extended period of training before my knee gets a bit sore again. I plan to run the half marathon at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon races on Sept 26th.

lizard king wrote:

Sorry if I missed it, but how is your training going of late? Any races on the horizon?

How did it go and how are things now?[/quote]

Waterfront half was 1:34:24, Ran a 5k a week later in 21:19. In November ran Stockade-athon 15k in 1:06:46. Expecting to run some indoor races early next year. Knee still troublesome but seems to be improving

Ed,

That's great news. Thanks for sharing.

great job i have alot of respect for you. Keep kicking ass

Ed, when you returned to training after your layoffs did you start at ten minutes and add a minute a day each day to get back to 2 hours (on your daily training run), or did you increase by a % each day?

Thank you.