Gary Oldman wrote:
So you believe that everyone needs the highest mileage they can do and yet you don't have a clue how to implement that?
How the heck did Cornell ever buy your BS?
I've been trying to wait until the end of the year (when everyone I coahced has graduated) to write up a Q&A about my time at Cornell but may not hold off to deal with jerks like yourself. I am VERY proud of what we (me and John Kellogg) accomplished there. We absolutely dominated in track and rewrote virtually every mid-d record that existed at the school. Being a long distance guy myself, I know some people on this very board were surprised that during my first 5 years or so nearly all of my stars were mid-d guys - Bruce Hyde, Jimmy Wyner, etc.
Here are the top 10 guys all time at 800 indoors. I coached all of them (one or two of them set their marks after I left):
http://www.cornellbigred.com/sports/2009/7/28/MTRACK_0728095322.aspx?id=339We once broke the Ivy League record in the DMR with our B team. By B team I mean without our anchor.
In terms of building mileage, going from 50 to 60 to 80 to 90 in a year (increase of 50% ) is likely too much.
Increasing mileage gradually over a number of years was something I very much focused on. Most people who were running 30-40 in HS could handle a few 50 mile weeks but everyone is different. Some kids can go way up, others can't handle any increases.
The fact that I quickly figured out what was wrong shows I did know what I was talking about. Don't put a square peg into a round whole. WHen I was in college, I heard so many coaches say, "This is what my all-AMerican did."
My reply would be, "I'm not your all-american." What works for some doesn't work for all.