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he was already under 13min when he started the 10am-10pm thing, before his breakthrough in 96 he was maxing out at 100mpw but also 13 runs/week at a good clip.
i think he overdid it, had still good years in 98-99 but then the car thing and then his body broke down..thyorid,anemia,etc.
I think the question is if you are doing very low fast
mileage in interval form, is not 5:20 everyday, but 4:20 on
the hard days, and 5:20 on the easy days.
hmmthinktwice wrote:
he was already under 13min when he started the 10am-10pm thing, before his breakthrough in 96 he was maxing out at 100mpw but also 13 runs/week at a good clip.
My point was that he ran 6:00 pace for aerobic dev. Not that he was better or worse or anything. I should have just left that part out. My point was that here was a 7:30/13:00 runner and he was running substantial miles at 6:00 pace.
The poster's question was can I run 80% of my miles at 5:20 pace if my LT is 5:15. The answer is that even though it is SLOWER than LT it is still too stressful to run that close to LT for 80% of your runs. I am assuming that the remaining 20% would be done at faster than LT. That is all.
Your LT can be measured by race results or in a lab, either way if you run 80 mpw and 80% of it is just slower than LT, you will explode in 1 week or so.
I am all for 45-60 minute runs at LT pace or slightly harder (slightly slower for the 60 min. ones), but to run all your aerobic miles NEAR that pace will fry you in short order.
darkness wrote:
I remember when Kennedy (remember him? The US's fastest 5k runner ever?) ran a winter in Australia. He ran 6 weeks at 115-130 all at 6:00-pace. 10 in the AM, 10 in the PM. That article is still on the net, check it out. He ran a track 5k in February in 13:15 off of ONLY 6:00 miles, probably the fastest 5k he ever ran outside of the super-fast rabitted European races in summer.
Had he tried to run 5:20-30 pace every day he would have lasted one week at that volume.
That's a fairly romanticized notion, and I actually tried it this summer. I bumped up my mileage higher than ever before and focused on maintaining 60-70 miles for about 6-8 weeks.
The result? It took about three weeks of speedwork to be able to break 20 again, or get within 75 seconds of the paltry 5k PB I set while more or less out of shape following a tremendous track season.
Building a base does a lot for you but you aren't going to race fast off of slow running.
why did you negleect other energy systems?
I hate myself.