WA has put out a great profile of Mario Garcia Romo who reveals the best is yet to come: "I'm not training at 100% right now."

One of the clear medal contenders for Budapest and Paris

Great feature. I like him a lot more after reading the article.

How many he has paid to write the article?
Garcia is for now a runner of paced results.

When I see him take a place 1 with his own race, I will put his name in my book.

Thanks for sharing Rojo. Great insight. If only more athletes realised that they don't have thrash themselves in workouts.

4th at worlds, NCAA Champion, and a 3:29 1500m. Pretty darn good career so far. If you had told me in 2021 that his career would have ended up being way better than Cole and Cooper’s, I’m not sure I would’ve believed you

Pretty sure this is the industry standard.

“I like the fact the distance – 1609.32m – is not an exact number, and I love the tradition of the discipline: the Millrose Games, the Dream Mile,” he says. “I also just find it more interesting and stylish to be referred to as a ‘miler’ than a ‘1500m specialist’.”

Abolish the 1500. It's just a worse mile.

The more I'm downvoted, the more I'm sure I'm in the right path.

@rojo

Your hatred of Katir has no limit.
I will wait for Monaco and another night spent without sleeping.

World Athletics has put ton of article about runners in the past weeks.

And you choose only the one that interest you.

Right on. Minimum effective dose. You do just enough to elicit the adaptation and that's it. There's no prizes for going overboard all the time.

Yes, but doesn't mean everyone listens. It gets worse the lower you get on the ladder too. Go to any club workout and you will see 90% of people burying themselves week after week.

I wouldn’t necessarily deem it the minimum effective dose, more like workouts that are controlled and hopefully individualized. You hear the stories of BTC rookies dripping out of workouts, just hanging on, taking years to adapt to the program. It has its benefits but I think it creates a small window of success.

Ritz gave a funny post race interview after the men’s 15, describing Mario and Nuguse as an old married couple, with Mario taking care of the chill Nuguse, who still hadn’t warmed up 55 minutes pre race.

1609.344m

Really?

There is no way of "winning" a training session, apart from executing the pre-planned sets at the appropriate internal intensity.

Imagine letting your ego interfere and disrupt your training on the daily. That's a very good way to all but guarantee a lack of continuity through burn-out, overtraining and injuries.

It's like all principles of intensity control fell out the window.

32 downvotes (2 answers) and I still was right.
Did you see the result of London Diamond League 1500m?