Runningart2004 wrote:
dasasdfa wrote:And of those 3000 soldiers, how many ran more than 50 miles/week? 5? 10? That other training is great but it isn't remotely specific.Nobody thinks a lot of people can roll off the couch and run sub 5 today. Tell someone that they get 10 million bucks for running sub 5 in the next 10 years, I would expect to see 50%+ of guys being able to do it. Obviously in reality nobody is going to put in the 10 years to optimize their mile performance since in the real world there is no reward.
You don't realize the vast majority of people couldn't run 50mi a week without getting hurt no matter how slow they build up.
The world view of this thread is skewed.
Alan
Not that you even need to run 50mpw to race the mile.