Congrats on running your personal best.
Dedication, proper training and diet will enable you to continue to improve. If coffee happens to be part of your diet, so be it.
As one of the first to post on this thread, I mentioned that coffee before running helps me out. I'm glad you at least gave it a try as many of us suggested.
Good luck.
gas station coffee! Was it gas station coffee?
If it wasn't the kind of coffee made in one of those 7/11's by some fat guy with nose piercings, then it is NOT legit.
Starbucks coffee does not count, that is the coffee of rich boy soccer players..
Only blue collar coffee counts.
For the gods' sake, ROAST YOUR OWN BEANS!
Congrats on the PR, Sacto.
I love coffee, and I am going to live forever. I am also unreasonably fast at running.
Sacramento 3200m wrote:
I came to the conclusion that i am not a cheat for drinking one cup of coffee.
You dirty rotten cheat!
In Marty Liquori's autobiography "On the Run" he mentions a meet in Europe where he was feeling sluggish and Steve Scott stopping by his hotel room and offering some caffeine tablets. Liquori wrote that he didn't feel right and turned it down
However in his training book "Real Running" which came out a year or two later he recommends experimenting with caffiene in tablet form before long training runs so he must have changed his mind.