I've followed Seth's videos for a long time and have generally liked them but this new thing of having a picture of a pope in most shots of his home is getting old. Once or twice is fine but he's really going overboard. Is he trying to convert people or just what is the point of this?
I'm afraid Seth is just like many runners (maybe you or someone you know) that seems to love training/distance more than racing and lowering times. He's got plenty of endurance, as do many serious runners who train hard - but not enough speed to breakthrough. Yet the "answer" Seth and others always seem to come up with is more mileage piled on more mileage. He races, then wonders why he didn't hit his goal.
Reduce the mileage by 20%, and move that energy/time into faster workouts. I know runners in this boat - stuck on big mileage but can't see they are doing the opposite of what they need to do to get faster.
Seth DOES cut mileage, but only when he tapers. Which he misjudges every time.
I'm pretty sure he's going to "spike up" prior to NYC for some reason, tweak his foot, and run a 2:26.
If he's able to butter the bread with Bekele in the pre-race pasta dinner he'll do well.
The problem is that Seth has described himself as a "Lydiard disciple" and he takes this to an obsessive degree with his insistence on absurd high mileage. I'm not overly familiar with Lydiard but I thought he at least prescribed some speed training but Seth instead focuses way too much on mileage totals. Over and over he ends up exhausted and overtrained. He clearly is stubborn but his Lydiard fetish seems to also be part of it.
FormerFan wrote:
The problem is that Seth has described himself as a "Lydiard disciple" and he takes this to an obsessive degree with his insistence on absurd high mileage. I'm not overly familiar with Lydiard but I thought he at least prescribed some speed training but Seth instead focuses way too much on mileage totals. Over and over he ends up exhausted and overtrained. He clearly is stubborn but his Lydiard fetish seems to also be part of it.
He got that from running at CU, but never was around long enough in the season to realize it's not just distance. Like most of us, he's FAR beyond the point where "base" is no longer needed, but I won't go there.
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