Around two minutes in, something interesting happened, which I also saw in a Hocker/Teare video several months ago. And it's something I have always agreed with myself, fwiw.
They got to a good sized hill on an EASY day, and decided to walk it. To keep it easy and save energy for the QUALITY work.
When Hocker and Teare did the same, I believe they said that they didn't want to go "lactic" on their easy run. It was something like a 4 mile easy AM run in their case.
Moral of the story, KEEP EASY DAYS EASY. Most importantly when you are in a phase with a lot of quality.
He seems to be holding his card close to the vest right now. No videos of workouts or updates on the Achilles. Just easy running and strides.
I suspect he’s 80% of the way back and doesn’t want anyone to know where his fitness really is (in fact he often doesn’t know until he races, which is why he probably wanted to get in a race before World’s). Looks like the rounds of the 15 will be his first outdoor race of 2025
Around two minutes in, something interesting happened, which I also saw in a Hocker/Teare video several months ago. And it's something I have always agreed with myself, fwiw.
They got to a good sized hill on an EASY day, and decided to walk it. To keep it easy and save energy for the QUALITY work.
When Hocker and Teare did the same, I believe they said that they didn't want to go "lactic" on their easy run. It was something like a 4 mile easy AM run in their case.
Gjert around 12 years ago or so was the first to recommend this publicly, so it is not unlikely that they picked it up from him.
Not a ton of substance, but looks like he's invested and trending in the right direction. Drills, strides, couple easy runs; normal stuff, hopefully indicates a return to a normal workout and lifting schedule.
Definitely an improvement from last video, seemed more engaged and focused on his goals. I don't think he mentioned the injury once.
Around two minutes in, something interesting happened, which I also saw in a Hocker/Teare video several months ago. And it's something I have always agreed with myself, fwiw.
They got to a good sized hill on an EASY day, and decided to walk it. To keep it easy and save energy for the QUALITY work.
When Hocker and Teare did the same, I believe they said that they didn't want to go "lactic" on their easy run. It was something like a 4 mile easy AM run in their case.
Gjert around 12 years ago or so was the first to recommend this publicly, so it is not unlikely that they picked it up from him.
Good points.
It's totally a well-established practice in Norway that originated with Nordic skiing. Matt Fitzgerald talks about it in his 80/20 book from 2014 (the book where Rojo wrote the forward), pg. 46, where Stephen Seiler moves to Norway and is surprised to see the best skiers walking up hills to avoid training too hard. Steve Magness goes over the same example in one of his books as well.
Around two minutes in, something interesting happened, which I also saw in a Hocker/Teare video several months ago. And it's something I have always agreed with myself, fwiw.
They got to a good sized hill on an EASY day, and decided to walk it. To keep it easy and save energy for the QUALITY work.
When Hocker and Teare did the same, I believe they said that they didn't want to go "lactic" on their easy run. It was something like a 4 mile easy AM run in their case.
Gjert around 12 years ago or so was the first to recommend this publicly, so it is not unlikely that they picked it up from him.
It’s pretty typical of Norwegian endurance athletes. It’s one of Seilers signature “polarized training” stories - he saw a top skier or runner walk a hill once and it hit him. It wasn’t new 12 years ago.
Gjert around 12 years ago or so was the first to recommend this publicly, so it is not unlikely that they picked it up from him.
Good points.
It's totally a well-established practice in Norway that originated with Nordic skiing. Matt Fitzgerald talks about it in his 80/20 book from 2014 (the book where Rojo wrote the forward), pg. 46, where Stephen Seiler moves to Norway and is surprised to see the best skiers walking up hills to avoid training too hard. Steve Magness goes over the same example in one of his books as well.
Very cool. I had no idea. hope these kinds of videos can get it out to even more of the masses.
Gjert around 12 years ago or so was the first to recommend this publicly, so it is not unlikely that they picked it up from him.
Good points.
It's totally a well-established practice in Norway that originated with Nordic skiing. Matt Fitzgerald talks about it in his 80/20 book from 2014 (the book where Rojo wrote the forward), pg. 46, where Stephen Seiler moves to Norway and is surprised to see the best skiers walking up hills to avoid training too hard. Steve Magness goes over the same example in one of his books as well.
The skiers walk on the uphills during their long runs because they run at an extremely low intensity and are out for 4-5 hours - even the sprint specialists. A friend of mine wrote a book about Norwegian skiing about 15 years ago. He was 55 years at the time but he was still able to follow the best female runners during their long runs because they ran at such an incredibly slow pace.
I think one of Jakob's strengths is that he has the confidence and history to train without needing to know where he's at going into the first race of a season. When I hear about his training I always think, wow that sounds great but I would be dying to do more race specific work to "see where I'm at" and build confidence. That's easier going into an early summer race than it is now. It will be interesting to me to see how well he can jump into racing this late in the year without the type of confidence boosting workouts/races others might do.