Yeah, okay. Go on a 3 hour long run in the morning and then do another in the evening and tell me how that works out for you.
just someone else wrote:
If we trained our distances runners like we do our swimmers from an early age we would be the best in the world at it. Swimmers are training harder than most college runners by the time they are 10. They have 2-3 hr workouts in the morning and then another 2-3 hr workout in the afternoon 5 days a week. Then they will have a 3 hr workout Saturday morning and possibly Sunday off. I was swimming about 40 miles a week from a very young age, which required about 25 hrs of swimming a week plus all the supplemental.
I know swimming and running are two different sports and the training is different because of the stress on the body, but we do not have a distance running training system in place that even comes close to swimming in this country.