Lebanon wrote:
When did Virgin tell two different stories? Tinman's account is in line with what's been published before, were's the difference?
I remember hearing Virgin speak one time and I think he said he would run into the 70's and above in the off-season but would tend to stay around the 50's in season, especially in track. This was quite a few years ago now so I may be wrong. That may account for the discrepancy.
I just graduated Lebanon Last year Craig was still around in Lebanon and His high school coach is also still there I could as him what his training was during high school while i'm home from college this weekend. I don't know his training myself because I wasn't that interested. I see Craig on a regular basis because he grew up on his parents farm next to my in rural lebanon. The only thing that I remember him telling me was his pre race workout was a two mile warm up when he woke up then run the course at a good pace then race then cool down on the whole course. When I was training he would give me tips on how to train on more upper body because he was about the same build as me when he was in high school(fairly tall and skinny). I post some info about his training as soon as I get it from him or his coach as soon as I get It.
I have Virgin written correspondence where he says he never ran more than 85 miles a week in HS, and that his longest run was a 13 miler. That's an exact quote. He did a lot of 600 yard intervals on the baseball field behind his high school.
[quote]Namena wrote:
I just graduated Lebanon Last year
Is it true that Lebanon high school didn't even have a track while Virgin was in high school? Apparently did his speed work on a baseball field?
Concerning workouts, Marc Bloom writes the following:
After college, Virgin trained himself in preparation for the World CC Championships. As a foundation for his two victories he did 2-3 hard workouts per week -- a ten miler on the roads in which he ran 2 easy miles, 6 miles of fartlek (surges of 200-1200 meters) and then 2 easy miles. Another was 12x440 uphill, going from 78 seconds down to 68 seconds. Long run of 15 or more miles. On recovery days, 4 easy most mornings and 10 easy in the afternoon.
Closer to the event, tried to simulate competition with sets of 600s coming through the quarter in 63 and closing in 27. In March of 1981 before workd's, his last workout was 12x400 on the track in 57.5 seconds.
Also was known for giving Miruts Yifter the nickname "Yifter the Shifter."
Guy was also an avid Disco junky...Malmo, does that hit close to home...I'll bet you were a Disco junky at some point, eh???
Hoovis
I heard he trained by running mileage and intervals.
Name not available is now name available: Mr K of Junior College Champions Rend Lake.
I work with a guy named Jim Appleman who was on the Lebanon cross-country team with Virgin. As we walked into the shop from the parking lot this morning, he told me Virgy averaged in the 70's weekly in high school, and in fact, the whole team did.
He train the same as us this year we did high mileage weeks about 70-75 then had three hard days a week with interval, hills and repeats or an farlek. and average runs at 6 min. pace
I ran with Craig in the weeks before his 2nd place finish at Boston. He peaked @ 120 mi. Per week. Our last work-out was speed work on the track:
2x220@32 sec.
2x440@1:04
2x880@2:08
1xmile@4:16
We did a 2 mile warm-up and a 2 mile cool-down