We are all falling for a sham. No, I do not believe any runner can elliptical their way to the gains she has had this season.
If one of the title contenders on the men's side said the same thing, no one would believe it. No one. Tell me I am wrong. Nico young, Ky Robinson, Habtom Samuel, Graham Blanks: "I run 3 days a week and use the elliptical" ya right! Sure you do
I was by no means as successful as the names you list. However I did compete at ncaa championships and ran 2-3 days a week with the rest as pool running and stationary bike. The running days would be track intervals with longer warm up and cool down or a run of around 10 miles so I would usually hit around 30-35 mpw on 3 days. The drawback of this training is you usually have trouble with a long season, and trouble with extra rounds at a championship meet
2-3 days a week for her is 30 miles. That’s a lot of miles on those days she’s running. Equivalent to the daily mileage of someone running 70-80 miles.
I’m more curious if she means only 2-3 days of running workouts, or 2-3 days of running AT ALL.
For instance, could she be doing an easy run warmup, then cross train? Because 30 miles on 2-3 days of running is very long for an injury-prone runner.
The most odd thing is she only runs 3 days a week but is still hitting 30 miles a week, averaging at least 10 miles on running days with every run being a workout. Seems that easy runs are what gets Parker hurt, hence she's avoiding them and keeping the workouts.
Disagree, if you can cross train like an animal and get in enough volume on workout days I think it's possible. It works for 6k and down I'm sure, but I don't see that holding up if she ever moved up to 10k or marathon.
“It is time”. I’m pretty positive your athlete posted on here about you, if you use the same username over and over…long story short, nobody on here should be listening to your advice based off that athletes concerns…
Lol no idea what you're talking about but glad to see you're upset over me.
In the early Aughts, Josh Spiker was known for running 4:06 for the mile in high school on even lower mileage than Valby while doing the equivalent of over 100 mpw on the elliptical.
Truth or damn near as I know/knew and had gone to college with his HS coach. He personally told me basically the same....
I wish I knew about cross training. I went from 2:12 to 1:53, and from 1:53 to 1:49 in the 800m in my first 2 years running but then I injured my entire right leg REALLY BAD while training right after my pb season opener.
Cross training wasn't discussed back in in the 90s, it could have extended my career, oh well can't cry over spilt milk. Everyone was expecting me to easily run 1:42 - 1:44 that year before my injury. The injury to my knee and hip HAS only got worse and DECADES later still bothers me.
CONGRATULATIONS to Parkers coach if cross training has extended her career and contributed to her success.
We are all falling for a sham. No, I do not believe any runner can elliptical their way to the gains she has had this season.
Parker Valby isn't the only one who doesn't run that much. Elizabeth Leachman also does a lot of elliptical, Arc trainer, and swimming, and not much running, and she went from a nobody a year ago to the top rated female high school xc runner in the country.
And 2 years ago, Natalie Cook did the same thing and won Foot Locker. So cross training does work for some people.
The most odd thing is she only runs 3 days a week but is still hitting 30 miles a week, averaging at least 10 miles on running days with every run being a workout. Seems that easy runs are what gets Parker hurt, hence she's avoiding them and keeping the workouts.
I mean doing 10-15 miles as a workout day is pretty normal, easy to see how you can get 30 miles off 3 days like that
“It is time”. I’m pretty positive your athlete posted on here about you, if you use the same username over and over…long story short, nobody on here should be listening to your advice based off that athletes concerns…
Lol no idea what you're talking about but glad to see you're upset over me.
I’m afraid my coach may post here, but I’m feeling pretty burnt out from double thresholds, has anybody else experienced this? Last week we were instructed this: AM: 4x1600 at MP W/ 90s restPM: 3x4x400 at 10k pace...
We are all falling for a sham. No, I do not believe any runner can elliptical their way to the gains she has had this season.
If one of the title contenders on the men's side said the same thing, no one would believe it. No one. Tell me I am wrong. Nico young, Ky Robinson, Habtom Samuel, Graham Blanks: "I run 3 days a week and use the elliptical" ya right! Sure you do
Don't know how much he actually managed to run in training, but I could see people believing Matt Davis if he said that back in the day. He was the master of being near the top while always being injured according to old message board posts.
This post copied a newspaper article about Matt Davis after he finished 5th at 1996 NCAAs (including beating Meb) two months after being diagnosed with a stress fracture in his femur.
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