0ure wrote:
What is interesting to me is there have been a number of people now who have worked closely with sirpoc and have had huge success (or at least from what FOD was saying, has direct access to bouncing off ideas) and seem to be making individual tweaks for what they have in mind. Wigglewaffle posted as much as did the guy who was around 2:32 in Seville. Other people have posted he's helped them. OK, so there is a book, but it's refreshing that there is a guy that seemingly is just happy to help and ask for nothing back. It goes give me faith a little bit in otherwise an online space where I've become very cynical.
Good luck btw to FOD. It looks like there's a huge PB on the cards. It's crazy to see even for him who has trained a various number of ways, has made this work for him with just the 7 runs a week, albeit sandwiched into 5 days through no choice and that he is part of a long list of people who just feel so good with this routine of just chipping away with no hero sessions.
Shows you how it's so much about intensity control and learning that. If anything I think that's what sirpoc has brought into focus rather than any subthreshold magic.
I always try and help anyone I can, but I get so many messages, I work 40+ hours a week most of the year, I just can't keep up these days, as much as I try. The thread here itself has long spiralled past the point I can have time to read it all or contribute much. But then again, I do waste time most days still talking to Hard2find (it's funny people ask me all the time where he went) about indie music.
But people are overblowing my contribution. All these guys have done well because they have gone out and done the work. With FOD, the input I've had basically had is where to maybe pitch the first session in a double to fit in what how his life works, or maybe how to adapt as close to possible what I did for the marathon but with his super time crunched life. Or just me laughing at him how Spurs are going down.
Wigglewaffle, the guy is a machine and just needs to be reigned in sometimes. Sometimes needs to be hyped up. Or race pacing strategy. It's really just keeping him on track. But again, he would be fine without anything I have said.
2:32 guy from Seville. He's done multiple ilIronman's. He doesn't need my help. Again, it's just maybe a little bit of a nudge in the right direction of intensity control, or again just reassurance that things will work out because it was always going to take longer from his higher starting point, but he got there with a terrific marathon in Seville, where I chased him and another friend round the city on a bike. Unfortunately he broke his foot in a totally freakish and unrelated to running accident. So recently it's just been how to make the most of what he can do, like getting him to a session of a lactate reading of 21 on the bike ha ha but of course I hate intensity.
Same with others, I'm always happy to help but at the end of the day, people have to do the work. That's the hard bit, day in day out. Doing the same thing or near to it for months on end. That's an underappreciated skill in anyone who's had success vaguely training like this.