some light wrote:
So run fatigued, i.e.- post race
Get the benefits of running fatigued after an awesome effort, and also make an already tough peak day, a full workout day. No way any other tough day that he peaked for was Galen going to do only 2 miles of hard running. Put it all in one day and move on.
Well then, "put it all in one day", huh? Then why not throw in, oh, I don't know, another 8 x400 at say 56 pace ( a jog for Galen). You know, as Fitzgerald put it, practice running fatigued! (if you really mean it).
some light wrote:BTW, 4 x mile at 10K pace not that hard. The 4:01 at the end is the thing messing everyone up here. They just can't comprehend his fitness level. Maybe they will understand after he runs 3:48-3:49 in a few weeks.
Or maybe you and others will when he doesn't break 3:50...? Not saying he won't break it, but let's wait and see.
Ritz, Sol, Teg, BK, and Lagat have all run faster than Rupp at 5k so far. Did they ALL run extremely hard workouts after running many of their PR races leading up to those fast 5k's?.... as Galen is doing? If not, then there is not proof that Salazar's method is a superior one to taking it easy after the race, and coming back after one day rest and blasting an even better workout. None, zilch, nada.
Just because Rupp is extremely talented and successful, and Salazar is a knowledgeable, passionate, good coach, it doesn't mean that EVERY part of his training scheme is better than a different training concept he could follow. Sorry, it doesn't. On this particular method (very hard workouts after races), the jury is out. Unless one did controlled experiments with many very talented guys doing the same training except for doing/not doing the extremely hard post race workout, we don't know.