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18 years ago 08/20/2005 6:21pm EDT

re: somerandomdude

somerandomdude wrote:
actually, ibrahim is still a kenyan citizen, as far as i've been told. his brother mbarak is the newly minted citizen.

And actually, I had a chance to meet and talk to Ibrahim some years ago about his training. His average per week over the course of a year may have been 90-100, but when he was gearing up for a marathon, he would run two 25k runs one day and then just one the next, with an occasional slightly longer run. This is more like 190 than 90. It's funny that some of the runners who have been cited in this thread - Paul Gompers, for example - were actually paragons of high mileage training.

Dixon and Foster ,on the other hand, were relatively low mileage runners - or so they said to the press at the time.

18 years ago 08/20/2005 8:02pm EDT

re: logic

logic wrote:
Whatever dude wrote:
Paul Gompers 90-100 miles per week and ran 3 straight under 2:15
I said WORLD CLASS class not US regional class. Answer with a sub 2:10 guy or not at all.

No disrespect man but gompers finished 4th in the olympic trials when we still had some good US marathoners.I consider him world class when he was running.By the way he averaged around 2:13 and to this day that is world class period.

18 years ago 08/20/2005 8:13pm EDT

re: logic

I think everyone's mileage totals are suspect.

How many people really knew or know how many miles they run? GPS is a recent development and even then I doubt many elite runners use a Garmin.

People are just guessing for the most part. Estimating based on what they think their pace is for a run. It is way too easy to be off when it comes to estimating mileage.

And I suspect people overestimate their running distances especially if there is any hilly terrain at all.

18 years ago 08/20/2005 8:45pm EDT

re: luv2run

Most people, elites included, run familiar courses that they have measured and run time and again. Most elites can tell you to within 5-10 seconds per mile of their current pace. Given this, It's not that hard to know how far you run per week give or take 5 miles. 5 miles is not a significant difference in this discussion.

18 years ago 08/21/2005 11:17am EDT

re: not elite

not elite wrote:
Most elites can tell you to within 5-10 seconds per mile of their current pace.

Very true. Since at the elite level (and even good regional level) pace running is what it's all about I'd be really surprised if most of them couldn't rattle off fairly accurately the distance they just ran based on effort. I'd bet any mileage estimate that came straight from the runner (not second / third hand) is pretty close. Even a mediocre runner like me was pretty good at effort / distance correlation when I was in shape, so I agree thinking mileage estimates for elite are exagerated is off base.

Now some of my buddies that ran marathons in "three hours and change" (which was anywhere from a 3:02 to 3:25) were a different story.

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