Tell us about the 240 mile weeks and the noon hour gravel pit workouts.
Gerry the Jogger: Tell us about the 240 mile weeks.
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Huh??? Well....
In college there was this sports physiologist. He told me the top milage a human can endure over 30 days is 20 miles. He was writting a book and that was his opinion. I told him the human spirit is better than that. So we decided to experiment. He would follow me (bike, moped, car) on every workout I did for 90 days and I would run 50 miles per day. We did (5 runs/day usually) and he wrote his book. Said 20 miles a day is the most a human can endure. Stupid physiologist! That is the kind of stuff runners are reading now and filling themselves with FEAR of injury if they run too far.
And the gravel pits. Oh I hated the gravel pits. At the end of the road out of town there was a gravel pit with a sagging sign that read CUNNINGHAM SAND AND GRAVEL. Our high school XC team used to go there about once a week to run relays up and down the sand hills. Len Long, my running buddy at school was 6'7" tall and his long legs could eat up those hills easily while my short squatty body had to fight like mad to get up the hills. Across the loose sand I could do alright but if Len was close going up the hills I could never catch him.
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I remember reading in your book about doing fartlek type intervals using the telephone poles on the country roads. I did that too, after reading that, back in the 70s.
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Emil Zatopek did that too in the 50s. That crazy 'ol Czech!
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he also carried his wife on his back while running though the woods for resistence training.
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I wanted to try that too, but I couldn't find his wife!
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You should check out his book if you want his opinion- he covers most of his training ideas in there, I think.
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I need to paraphrase all those long workouts. I did not run 240 miles in a weeks time. I ran from home to Mt. Spokane and back (44 miles one way). I ran to Neuman Lake and back (55 miles one way) I ran to a great fishing place on Peone Creek (27 miles one way). I never ran a workout longer than 17 miles when I was going to workout. I ran mega miles to GET WHERE I WANTED TO GO. I didn't even keep track of how many miles I was running. Why should I? Your legs are not some sort of machine; they are transportation. Use them to get where you wanna go and forget about training. There is always some book writer or news personality who can calculate miles for you later on. Forget miles. Have a fun life. If your fun takes you over 50 miles a day, that's o.k.
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GerryJogger wrote:
I wanted to try that too, but I couldn't find his wife!
Hahahahaha! F**k that was funny.
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Wait is GerryJogger actually Gerry? I thought his name was Gerry The Jogger?
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