Despite his remarkable achievements, Myers trains with a plan that is appropriate for his age, and his training volumes do not exceed 80 kilometers per week. He is coached by Australian distance coach Dick Telford and is currently in his final year of high school at Lake Ginnindera College in Canberra.
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His strava indicates he often runs close to 60 miles per week. Still impressive for his times but the OP/article isn’t entirely accurate.
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And Cade Flatt runs 5 miles per week, so his upside is 1:36, once he starts to put on real miles.. Yeah whatever. I mean, sure, maybe this kid truly does run only 50 mpw. But you don't know any more than I know whether that is true.
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He's clearly overtraining. If he ran only 25mpw he would be running far faster. That's how it works now, doesn't it?
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Armstronglivs wrote:
He's clearly overtraining. If he ran only 25mpw he would be running far faster. That's how it works now, doesn't it?
Grate inglish der.
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CaMy wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
He's clearly overtraining. If he ran only 25mpw he would be running far faster. That's how it works now, doesn't it?
Grate inglish der.
English is an informal language - except to foreigners who can't speak it and mindless pedants. The point of the comment was clearly above you.
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The only 1500m men and women who should be logging close to 100 miles per week are 1500m runners with 5000m aspirations.
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I ran 70 mpw, but was completey geared towards 5k/10k training so I broke 14:30 before 4:00 (1500). I think you need high mileage though for your future though
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Armstronglivs wrote:
CaMy wrote:
Grate inglish der.
English is an informal language - except to foreigners who can't speak it and mindless pedants. The point of the comment was clearly above you.
The point of my post was clearly above you, narcissist that you are.
You are the mindless pedant who often belittles other posters when they make a mistake.
Glad to have enough control over you to make you reply.
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loI wrote:
I ran 70 mpw, but was completey geared towards 5k/10k training so I broke 14:30 before 4:00 (1500). I think you need high mileage though for your future though
You agree with me. Great! I stated athletes should not log near 100 miles per week unless an athlete has 5000m aspirations. By your post, it appears you raced 5000m.
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The question for me will be longivity. What speedwork has he been doing? How intense? For how long? I have read he has been doing organised sessions since he was 10 years old. That's 15 years of hard work at 25. I wish him a fine career.
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Yeah 8o-90km /week sure but he doesn’t ever count the 60k Sunday granny jog at sloth molasses fat burn threshold
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watch out jakob wrote:
Despite his remarkable achievements, Myers trains with a plan that is appropriate for his age, and his training volumes do not exceed 80 kilometers per week. He is coached by Australian distance coach Dick Telford and is currently in his final year of high school at Lake Ginnindera College in Canberra.
You guys still don't get it that high mileage only works for some people.... his coach has the guy do a lot of "quality" mileage, if you understand the concept
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600yd/600m man wrote:
loI wrote:
I ran 70 mpw, but was completey geared towards 5k/10k training so I broke 14:30 before 4:00 (1500). I think you need high mileage though for your future though
You agree with me. Great! I stated athletes should not log near 100 miles per week unless an athlete has 5000m aspirations. By your post, it appears you raced 5000m.
Uhhh Jim Ryun, Steve Ovett and Peter Snell may disagree with you.
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KAV wrote:
watch out jakob wrote:
Despite his remarkable achievements, Myers trains with a plan that is appropriate for his age, and his training volumes do not exceed 80 kilometers per week. He is coached by Australian distance coach Dick Telford and is currently in his final year of high school at Lake Ginnindera College in Canberra.
You guys still don't get it that high mileage only works for some people.... his coach has the guy do a lot of "quality" mileage, if you understand the concept
That's unpossible!
Everyone, on letsrun, "knows" that one can NOT run great without 100 mpw and double thresholds , right? Right. so... must be fiction.
Alternate take- Meh. 3:55 sucks. everyone and their sister breaks that nowadays.
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He hasn't even turned 17 years old yet, so I'd say 80km a week is on the high side for someone his age. His coach is obviously taking the conservative (and wise) approach of gradually increasing his volume as he develops.
He's still greatly improving his performances from race to race, so there's no need for any drastic increases in mileage.
At this rate, by the time he's 20 years old, he'll be running 80-90 miles/wk, and will likely have had no serious injuries.
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Incredibly talented, perhaps he'll be at jakob's level in a few years, maybe sub 350 as a junior
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only reason for higher mileage would be to handle longer workouts, and only reason for that would be to run a longer season and hold a longer peak and deal with championship rounds.
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CaMy wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
English is an informal language - except to foreigners who can't speak it and mindless pedants. The point of the comment was clearly above you.
The point of my post was clearly above you, narcissist that you are.
You are the mindless pedant who often belittles other posters when they make a mistake.
Glad to have enough control over you to make you reply.
There was no point to your post.
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KAV wrote:
watch out jakob wrote:
Despite his remarkable achievements, Myers trains with a plan that is appropriate for his age, and his training volumes do not exceed 80 kilometers per week. He is coached by Australian distance coach Dick Telford and is currently in his final year of high school at Lake Ginnindera College in Canberra.
You guys still don't get it that high mileage only works for some people.... his coach has the guy do a lot of "quality" mileage, if you understand the concept
Why is high mileage assumed not to be "quality"? Why is low mileage conversely assumed to be "quality"?
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