The Summer of Moorcraft 1982 PR city at age 29

What do you expect? A star during the free-for-all 80s, when - at the height of the Cold War - the East tried to out-dope the West and vice versa...

casual obsever wrote:

What do you expect? A star during the free-for-all 80s, when - at the height of the Cold War - the East tried to out-dope the West and vice versa...

I fully expect Moorcroft doped. GBR Dr. Jimmy Ledingham is on record saying the British athletes under his care were doping. Allan Wells has been accused by other runners and well as the media, and Ledingham. It is a near certainty that Moorcroft's WR 13:00.41 was run as he was "doped to the gills".

SlowFatMaster wrote:

I find his staple workout of 1000m repeats under 2:30 with 6+ minutes of rest fascinating.

Would you expand on this staple workout, please? Thanks in advance.

Find it strange that Moorcroft only came 3rd at euros that year. Poor tactics?

Another pudgy master wrote:

SlowFatMaster wrote:

I find his staple workout of 1000m repeats under 2:30 with 6+ minutes of rest fascinating.

Would you expand on this staple workout, please? Thanks in advance.

Find it strange that Moorcroft only came 3rd at euros that year. Poor tactics?

I can help. He did km repeats at sub 2:30 pace with six minutes of rest.

Par for the course wrote:

Moorcroft finally had a year where his injury problems were under control.

The Ovett /Coe rivalry made everyone raise their game.

Walker ran his best ever mile at age 32 that year.

Nothing to see here.

His 1978 wasn't too shabby.

Winter down under

Commonwealth Champ

3rd in Euro Champs behind Ovett & Coghlan

He ran a 1:46.6 800 in 1982; was that his fastest?

Try it yourself wrote:

Another pudgy master wrote:

Would you expand on this staple workout, please? Thanks in advance.

Find it strange that Moorcroft only came 3rd at euros that year. Poor tactics?

I can help. He did km repeats at sub 2:30 pace with six minutes of rest.

Ignore the post above, and enjoy pages 6-9 for specifics on DM's training :

It's the movement we knew wrote:

casual obsever wrote:

What do you expect? A star during the free-for-all 80s, when - at the height of the Cold War - the East tried to out-dope the West and vice versa...

I fully expect Moorcroft doped. GBR Dr. Jimmy Ledingham is on record saying the British athletes under his care were doping. Allan Wells has been accused by other runners and well as the media, and Ledingham. It is a near certainty that Moorcroft's WR 13:00.41 was run as he was "doped to the gills".

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19810722&id=YO5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kacMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2127,4118736&hl=en

Completely misquoted. Dr Ledingham said that he gave some drugs to a handful of sprinters in his care, most of who were Scottish.

There is absolutely no evidence to suggest Moorcroft was doping. He had a long, successful career that was hampered a lot by injury. 13:00 is not that special these days, and he was a lot more talented than many of the other runners around that 13 min barrier.

messi wrote:

Par for the course wrote:

Moorcroft finally had a year where his injury problems were under control.

The Ovett /Coe rivalry made everyone raise their game.

Walker ran his best ever mile at age 32 that year.

Nothing to see here.

His 1978 wasn't too shabby.

Winter down under

Commonwealth Champ

3rd in Euro Champs behind Ovett & Coghlan

He ran a 1:46.6 800 in 1982; was that his fastest?

Yes, all his PBs were set in 1982

Another pudgy master wrote:

SlowFatMaster wrote:

I find his staple workout of 1000m repeats under 2:30 with 6+ minutes of rest fascinating.

Would you expand on this staple workout, please? Thanks in advance.

Find it strange that Moorcroft only came 3rd at euros that year. Poor tactics?

Euros 5000m

This is ultimately pointless as unless there is data released from frozen historic samples then we will never know for sure if Moorcroft doped.