Seb is old. His memories are not what they used to be.
Seb Coe's mileage confirmed! - the debate is now over
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On this 2008 interview, Coe mentions that he was running 1/3 of 100 MPW as a teen.
'We were in the Peter Snell, Jim Ryun era and the theory was that to run 800metres you had to run 100 miles a week. My dad took that idea apart. To run a world-class 800m time you run 80 per cent of the race without enough oxygen, so he started me on a programme which cut the miles to a third but had me running 40 200metres consecutively with a 30-second recovery. Or six 800metres.'
Everyone thought they were insane. The orthodox coaches would see Coe winning cross-
country races by more than a minute and assumed he was running more mileage than their kids were. His dad would almost come to blows with people about it: 'People would come up to him and say, "Stop: you are killing this kid."He also mentioned he believes 'he would have nicked a medal" if chosen for the team in 1988.
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