Must be a tough pill for Jakob to swallow that he was getting flogged on massive yardage as a child and now a phenom is coming through that will smash all his records and have better career longevity because he's body wasn't abused as a child.
7:17 doesn't speak much of his being "abused as a child". Let's see if Ruthe is still competing in 8 years or whether he, too, might get Achilles or some other injuries, as so many athletes do.
And think how many of us would beat an Olympic champ if he had a leg amputated. Tulloh isn't saying you don't need to train, just that there are other things that are more important. Nic Bideau once said that training is the least important thing he does for his runners.
Disagree. If you don't train at all you won't be competitive in high level distance running no matter how talented you are. Ruthe obviously has a lot of natural ability but how many 16 year olds have similar ability but are not involved in distance running? We don't get to see that because they have not been training.
In addition, following the right type of training adapted to the athlete is of extreme importance. I've seen 4 min milers change coaches and go to a crappy coach and their performance level collapsed to around 4 mins for 1500m over about 1 or 2 seasons. Similarly, I've seen guys running 30 min 10ks change their training and again fall apart to around 33 mins for 10k. In all cases the guys were training "hard" without breaks due to injuries but the training was not adapted to their strengths. So you can have talent but if you don't train that talent will never manisfest itself and if you don't train optimally your talent will not be expressed at anything close to its full potential.
Again, of course you have to train and some things work better for a particular runner than others do. Lee Troop told me that he'd been to three Olympics and knew many medalists. None of them did exactly the same thing which meant, he said, that there is no one right way to train. Tom Donnelly got all sorts of great results at a DIII school from kids who were not anything close to elite high school runners. When I asked how he did that he said that it wasn't the training, that there are no secrets there, it was the team culture.
Of course you have to train and you need to do enough of it consistently which means finding something you can tolerate.
Sam Ruthe, a 16 year old from New Zealand, ran a 3:53.83 mile on a windy day and 3:48.88 the very next week at his first indoor race. The fastest in the world under 18 and already fastest New Zealander in the mile. The time itself is mind-boggling and causes an existential crisis, but what’s crazier to me is his training. His dad said in the interview that he only runs 80-90km (50-56 mile) per week and never does doubles. When Jakob dominated the field as a teen or Kiptum ran crazy marathons back-to-back-to-back despite his young age, it kinda made sense because they’d been training like a machine since they were like 12 or something. They put in insane time and effort on top of their phenomenal talent and environment. But this Kiwi kid right here trains like a normal high schooler and is crushing the aerobic game (he also ran his first 5k in 13:40 about a month ago while focusing on the 800m-mile). There are literally tons of high school or collegiate runners all around the world who run way more than he does and never touch a 4:00 mile, let alone 3:50.
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