Comrade Gault! I thought I sent you to the gulag! How did you get out?

Have you recovered from the attack? I hope ro “gjert” jo apologized to you.

i want to make a joke about throwing towels, but the Gjert stuff really took an ugly turn this week with Kristoffer's comments

excuses excuses excuses, he always seems to be sick when he loses

and Kerr was right, Jakob is surrounded by yes men who will post on letsrun to try and protect him when he loses, and downvote any post that criticizes Jakob

How does it feel knowing your hero got 5th, failed to break 3:30 and lost to Laros after saving himself the whole year?

Jonathan blink twice if rojo has your family

Jakob has two Olympic gold medals and multiple world records. He doesn’t need any excuses, he’s already one of the all time greats even if he loses occasionally

You are suggesting the people closest to Jakob (Elizabeth, Henrik, Filip, and others) post on LRC anonymously to defend him???

Jakob is still undefeated when well I guess.

(Here he calls the cross training) “Very silly”

Well you look silly for getting your doors blown off by Hocker at the Olympics lol! Thinks his training is the best for all!

How many global golds does Hocker have?

One, that he KNOWS actually belongs to Jacob Ingebrigtsen. You can tell Cocker is ashamed to have it.

Enough to matter.

Could we quash this inane pissing contest please?

I think this is a little simplistic from Jakob, or just dictated by his own experience. In a perfect world, sure, you’d probably run 120+ mpw with a healthy dose of intensity and have it be perfectly calibrated to where you’re getting a steady stimulus but your body is able to recover and not break down. Some people find they can’t manage that, so instead they’re running 90, 70, 50, or Valby mpw but can still recover enough from a heart/lung/metabolic/endocrine/whatever standpoint to benefit from cardio x-training.

Hocker still runs quite a bit if he’s doing a bike ride or two a week. It’s the Trevor Painter group doing a crazy amount of bike training to be honest.

Jakob “Where did you come from?”

Yared “Boulder”

Ben Thomas probably wants Hocker to continue to cross train because it has kept him healthy the entire year and it works clearly. Maybe won’t get him to be the best 5k runner but you don’t need 100+ mile weeks to be able to run your best 1500m which is what Hocker specializes in.

I think he just likes it ans a way to change stimulus. Even Jakob admits cross training makes you like/appreciate the running more. Not everyone is the threshold/mileage machine Jakob is.

Didn’t listen to the clip but if we’re acting like hocker doing some cycling is the secret to his success it is silly. It’s not a all.

it’s either some additional low stress training or it’s erroneously being touted as his training secret to cover up the real secret they don’t want you to consider