I just got my Sports Illustrated today and Alan Webb has a nice three page spread. The main picture makes him look really bad ass, decked out in his Nike uni and doing a high knee skip up a hill. Thank you SI for finally putting out an article on track!
Has anyone else seen the article yet? What are your thoughts?
Scotty B. wrote:
Has anyone else seen the article yet? What are your thoughts?
Good article. Layden is a pro.
Pretty good article. I was expecting lameness, but the article was not too bad.
A little thin, but at least they acknowledge the milestone.
Looks like he hasn't shaved in a while.
Very good. Sports Illustrated beats the piss out of ESPN.
Great photos and writing. The best of about 100 articles I've read on AW
But still no cover! Oh well, the protects him from the ninx!
hill repeats in spikes??????? what an idiot
I agree, great picture and article. A very pleasant surprise to turn the page and see the giant picture of Webb. Webb definitely looks like a badass.
JEW wrote:
hill repeats in spikes??????? what an idiot
Yeah what an idiot. Just how far in this sport does he think he will go doing stuff like that?
It's a posed picture retard.
in the article they mention 10,000 meter total track workouts. Does that strike anyone as a huge amount of volume on the track, especially for a miler?
cmurph wrote:
in the article they mention 10,000 meter total track workouts. Does that strike anyone as a huge amount of volume on the track, especially for a miler?
It appears that Webb does a high volume of intervals, though not a high volume of mileage. Webb himself mentioned going down 10% or so from 10000 meters per interval session in the interview he did at USATF championships, so I don't think it is mistaken. They mentioned 9X800 in the SI article, and Webb has mentioned 20X400 in the past. Obviously, a lot of strength and apparently not just 10000m of threshold intervals. All of these sessions are huge compared to what Steve Scott did, though Steve did more mileage overall.
Maybe this is his "secret" that people keep asking about. It may be a trend, though, when you think about some of the sessions Goucher has mentioned since training with Salazar.
Steve Scott frequently ran very high-volume interval workouts, including 10x1 mile w/2:30 rest jogs (avg. 4:30, last one 4:16) during college cross-country season; during track season he did frequent 20x440 sessions. I was on his UC Irvine team in 1978 when he ran 20x400 with 110y jog rests and a 440y jog after #10. Our coach (Len Miller) split the rest of the distance runners into two groups, and we alternated trying to run with Steve while getting about quadruple the rest he was getting. He averaged 59 for the first 19 quarters, and before the last one, Miller told Steve to "run hard without straining." I don't know if he strained or not, but he ran 50-flat. This was when his mile PR was around 3:53, and since Miller continued to coach him throughout his career, the workouts were no doubt even tougher when he was 5-6 seconds faster.
The fact that we even have to mention that Webb is in SI is a sign of tracks lack of coverage in the US. We should have automatically assumed that the new American record holder for the mile would be in SI.
Most of this is true but the 20th quarter in 50 flat seems like a stretch...since his 400 pr wasn't much under 50.
I'd like to see him get the cover.