well. wrote:
You don´t seem to know jack about the process called "peaking". All distance runners, no matter if they are 5k runners or marathoners, do a few real "balls to the wall workouts" leading up to a peak race, to prepare their bodies and minds for race effort. Only doing mileage and your ordinary week-in, week-out workouts will make you fit but not prepare you for a peak, all-out race effort.
I know a hell of a lot more about it than you do, junior.
Plenty of people do "balls to the wall" workouts leading up to peak races. The mistake that some of them (like you)make is in thinking that it was those one or two "killer" workouts that led to the peak, rather than the consistent buildup and systematic cutback.
I didn't say "only do mileage". I said, don't think that doing one or a few "ball-busting" workouts is going to do jack shit for you. It won't. You do MANY workouts, most of them NOT ball-busting, just tough. It's all the consistent workouts you do on top of that consistent mileage that makes you peak.
The problem with dipshits like you is that you skimp on the mileage and then think your "ball-busting" workouts are going to save you.