It's really obvious you're a chatbot talking in circles. Get some new material.
I spent more than 15 minutes on an article for LRC and several people said I was trolling! When someone is trying to help you, maybe you should wakeup and take them seriously.
Thank you, Jed! It's truly disappointing to constantly be accused of such nonsense, simply because I put more thought and effort into my posts than the average millennial surfing these boards.
We sometimes did 2-2.5 minutes at 5:00 min/mi pace 10–15 minutes before races in college. Threshold warm-up is what our coach called it.
Sometimes it was a good way to get that “my legs feel like garbage” out of the way. Sometimes it made you realize you were really tired, haha. I ran 800/1500 mostly.
many times you run your fastest rep if a workout on the last one when you’re exhausted, so OSU studs getting tired because of a warmup is very unlikely.
As a road racer now, I do 60 seconds at 5:00 /mi pace 10 mins before all races half marathon or shorter. Getting my heart rate up makes the start much more manageable and, I would argue, is less tiring than a longer warmup running slow miles, especially for a HM.
There was a little guy who used to run 5 miles before a marathon to warmup. He was good and won races. They wrote about him in Runner's World when the magazine was legitimate in the 1970s. (I am not recommending that long of a warmup, but it does show how important warmups can be to racing well.)
I spent more than 15 minutes on an article for LRC and several people said I was trolling! When someone is trying to help you, maybe you should wakeup and take them seriously.
Thank you, Jed! It's truly disappointing to constantly be accused of such nonsense, simply because I put more thought and effort into my posts than the average millennial surfing these boards.
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There is more good content on LRC than bad stuff. I like seeing your name on your posts it shows that you respect yourself and others. Respect is going away and I find myself giving into that behavior at times as well.
Did anyone at on course notice how the OSU men did a super long stride right before the race on the course? They probably went around 400m, and was interesting to see since no other team did something similar. Maybe this was the secret to their incredible performance?
This was a very good thread. When I was a neophyte coach I inherited a team which had a runner qualify for the state meet despite the fact he would nap for 30 minutes right before his race, then jump up and win races. (This took place the year before I coached at the school, so I never saw him do it, but my kids swore that's what he did and he had a brother on my current team so it was very hard to dispel.) It took years to get rid of that thinking but when we did learn to warmup we started to win!
when you start racing it's nice because you don't have go into oxygen debt so quickly.
there's no such thing as "oxygen debt," but without explaining that, what's going on with long fast warmups is to get the muscles more acidic. Which has the effect of vasodilation, as someone else mentioned, but you need low muscle pH to get oxygen in there quickly.
It's also good to make your nerves stay in control, as they may lose it and feel weak from pre-race adrenaline. Give them something to do while they are trying to freak out.
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