Good Ed Whitlock story in NYT today

Mike, we should be able to work something out. The sessions run late most evenings but there is daylight most of the time. It is the practice of several of us to get together for a beer or two most evenings. There are quite a few long time distance runners on this years tour. I will probably not go to morning sessions.

Ed, now you will have to get out there and run a 23:56 four miler. LOL

Mr. Whitlock, thanks for answering these posts.

On the matter of training shoes: you state you have multiple pairs in rotation. Doubtlessly you may have seen the posts here dealing with the 'minimalist shoe' mindset.

I would be curious to see how you feel on this subject.

(I'm guessing that you have various and sundry models, this, in relation to the 'heel height' issue is of interest in that some do all their training in light racing flats. I cannot unless I wish to reactivate old achilles injuries.)

I recently read an interview with Zola (Budd) Pieterse (sp)

who has eschewed going barefoot and wears shoes now, claiming that she was getting injuries as she was getting older. She now runs approximately 10 miles a day, shod.

I haven't really followed the threads on minimalist shoes.

I have not been concerned about the type of training shoes I wear, which for the most part have been shoes I have won at races and therefore have involved little selection on my part. I would have no objection to training in minimalist shoes, but would have to see how they worked out. I race in minimalist shoes, even for a marathon. My racing shoes are more than 5 years old and well worn.

I have a chronic achilles problem which does not seem to bother me as long as I stay away from interval training. I am not convinced that elevated heels help achilles problems that much. The heels on my shoes are well worn down including my racing shoes. I find that running with short strides in training seems to work OK and I don't have any trouble getting into a more bounding gait when I race. That's it for me, whether it is any good for anyone else??

Thank you, thank you very much.

Maybe Ed hasn't peaked yet?

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This seems to be the original Ed W thread, and I resurrected it in order to review his training details which he well-describes.

Ed I posted in the original thread and here we are 10 years later, both still running! As a young master my PBs were 5sec slower in the 800 and 18 slower in the 1500, so I trained pretty hard for those. Approaching 60, I have decided to do one more marathon, the first since 1980. I have no problem getting in the miles, but while pursuing middle distance I was never consistent with the volume for very long.

For me, the prospect of running a stable distance every day for months is a little daunting, but in part due to Ed Whitlock's training and his sharing it with us, I have embarked on a six-month journey towards the marathon, running as consistently as I can. In less than a month I am comfortably up to one hour a day or about 50 miles/week. Like Ed I plan to add time gradually until I reach 90 minutes/day. then unlike Ed I will probably go to doubles and cap any progession at two hours and likely less. My main priority is to stay healthy and to have fun with this new program inspired by a living and running legend.

Bon Voyage!

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