I personally think it's dumb to assume that Coe ran so and so warm-up, cool down, or easy run and then add it to his volume total.
Why do some people find it so hard to accept that success can come from low volume training?
I personally think it's dumb to assume that Coe ran so and so warm-up, cool down, or easy run and then add it to his volume total.
Why do some people find it so hard to accept that success can come from low volume training?
because they are ignorant and stubborn
Oh, so in other words.... American??
Been There wrote:
trackhead--
I understand your point but have never bought into that philosophy. i will train a fify mile week runner with an 8k speed session just as easily as a 100 a week runner. Granted there are extremes but I think mileage has little to do with speed volume. I know a lot of coaches that agree with this and a lot that don't. I think mileage injures more runners than running an athlete at to high a percentage of quality. Look at Spiker when he was a senior in High School. His speed was about 90 percent of his week total. And he did this to avoid injury.
Peace
what a terrible example-- spiker had a nasty stress fracture his senior year (didn't race at all from late october to mid april)...
runners aren't all that different from one another. something that works spectacularly well for one runner for so long is something that others should try, with adjustments, of course. the fact that brits fell off so much for so many years after coe-ovett-cram-eliott suggests they were doing something right that was not done any more, as indeed peter coe stated with his comment to the effect that recent british runners are candy-asses. so, obviously, it would be pretty crucial to know if he was doing a 2M w/u for his steady runs, since it is pretty hard to get up and running at 6 min pace or whatever he was doing them at immediately when you're stiff in the morning from yesterday's work.
I like to point out to people like you that in everything the Coe’s did they included extensive physical fitness outside of running. It is something few Americans do; that all Africans and Europeans do that drastically increases their running performance. I take a huge offence to anyone who assumes that the 30+or- miles that Coe did was “training easily”. Ran 100 mile weeks in high school and you know where I got. A 40 min 10k and a shit load of injuries. Since my last injury I have changed my running since graduating college to near all out 40 to 45 min runs and have run a 35 min 10 and increased all my prs. I do circuit training after almost every run for an hour and I can guarantee you that my 40 miles a week is harder training than anything you miladge no pushup pussies do.