dsrunner wrote:
even as a single week, 190 miles is just plain silly.
doing the volume gets highly addictive plain and simple.
the biggest reason he would look to do more is that
he never approached his training from a quality orientation
so he knows no other moves to play.
the biggest barrier to sub 13/27 is speed side but here, also his reluctance to cap his volume at something moderate enough to allow for
quality work.
dsrunner represents everything that\'s wrong with the running world. any time in life somebody tries to do something that\'s outside the norm, there are less courageous people taking jabs at them trying to bring the idea down that maybe doing something very different can be a good thing.
what levins is doing is working, hence his constant pbs. and clearly, he has the speed to go sub 13 or sub 27. he can conservatively run an all out 400m in 50 seconds, which is on pace for a 10:25 5k. My point is only that having top end speed is overrated in distance events and that athletes strength is more important. In an actual 5k, where they\'re trying to hold onto 62s and 63s, top end speed doesn\'t really play a factor.
As for quality, who are you to say he isn\'t doing enough? After last cross season, he specifically talked about how he was fitting in more workouts than ever before and I would wager, he does more work at interval and tempo paces than anyone on this board calling him out. Now tell us an aspect of your life which you work hard at and I\'ll tell you how you need to approach it from a more \"quality orientation.\"