Mary Slaney's back!!!! Slaney doing 200-250 mpw!!! (On an Elliptigo)

This is what you do when you can no longer run and you still enjoy the movement and the rush of a workout. Good for Mary! I ride the same mileage on my ElliptiGO, but still miss running.

TDF wrote:

This is what you do when you can no longer run and you still enjoy the movement and the rush of a workout. Good for Mary! I ride the same mileage on my ElliptiGO, but still miss running.

Sometimes we have to find another way of getting runners high. Hiking has been my choice since ankle ligament injuries stopped my serious running. ElliptiGO is something I've been think about getting into; better for a bad back than a bike it would seem.

TDF wrote:

This is what you do when you can no longer run and you still enjoy the movement and the rush of a workout. Good for Mary! I ride the same mileage on my ElliptiGO, but still miss running.

Maybe that rush is what SFH was searching for in Vegas. Whatever works.

Awesome

TDF wrote:

This is what you do when you can no longer run and you still enjoy the movement and the rush of a workout. Good for Mary! I ride the same mileage on my ElliptiGO, but still miss running.

This is how (apparently) Meb did a lot of his training.

Based on his Olympics, he can no longer run either.

Alternate Reality wrote:

This is how (apparently) Meb did a lot of his training.

Based on his Olympics, he can no longer run either.

He did very well for having cramps and making several pit stops along the way.

Great to see her back getting out to work out hard and enjoying it.

Question on this part,

“My high-mileage weeks were 70 to 80 miles, but I couldn’t do a lot of those because if I did do them then I would be hurt the following week. So when I performed at my best on the track in the middle-distances I was training right around 50 to 60 miles a week.”

Emphasising quality over quantity, she adds that most of her own training miles were at a brisk pace. “I rarely ran slower than six-minute pace so it was always good quality training.”

Would that 50-60 mpw at not slower than 6:00 pace been even too much at a fast pace for training?

She sounds like a letsrun.com poster...totally not a hobby jogger:

"Shuffling along at seven or eight-minute mile pace is not satisfying. But that’s all I could do because I could not get up on my toes any more when I ran."

Interesting article. Maybe she could still "run" new York on the ElliptiGo

rojo wrote:

She loves the feeling she gets from pushing it on an ElliptiGO:

http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/mary-decker-slaney-runs-again-50805?

Before discovering the device in 2012, she could only jog whicih she hated.

It will all be fun and laughter before she falls off and then it will be years of tears, resentment and unfulfilled dreams.

I am inspired to get this checked out on myself. Never ever in the same ballpark as a decker slaney but all her symptoms of arthritis are almost like I lived her life. . . Even down to the constant sinusitis!

brosephnoper wrote:

She sounds like a letsrun.com poster...totally not a hobby jogger:

"Shuffling along at seven or eight-minute mile pace is not satisfying. But that’s all I could do because I could not get up on my toes any more when I ran."

Mary is obviously a liar. She discovered the bike ar age 54 and prior to that she was doing "seven or eight-minute" miles which was "shuffling."

Seven minute pace would have been a challenging training pace for a 50 year old woman. Who is she kidding?

7 is on the low side of that range but you're saying that a great runner at 50 would have difficulty with that pace? Like Joan Benoit Samuelson did? She was running marathons at much faster than 7 minute pace in her 50s.

She ran 2:47 at age 53 after two other sub 2:50s in her 50s. And she still ran 2:51 at 54. (3:04=7 minute pace). When Mary Slaney was at her best, she front-ran dominating victories against the world's best, and therefore could have run significantly faster with pacers. And the film proves that she was tripped by Zola Budd, who stuck her left leg right in front of Slaney before trying to pass.

jjjjjj wrote:

7 is on the low side of that range but you're saying that a great runner at 50 would have difficulty with that pace? Like Joan Benoit Samuelson did? She was running marathons at much faster than 7 minute pace in her 50s.

She ran 2:47 at age 53 after two other sub 2:50s in her 50s. And she still ran 2:51 at 54. (3:04=7 minute pace). When Mary Slaney was at her best, she front-ran dominating victories against the world's best, and therefore could have run significantly faster with pacers. And the film proves that she was tripped by Zola Budd, who stuck her left leg right in front of Slaney before trying to pass.

You don't get it. Slaney is lying. Slaney was not "a great runner at 50." She would have been working hard at 7 minute pace at age 50.

Uniyun wrote:

[quote]brosephnoper wrote:

Seven minute pace would have been a challenging training pace for a 50 year old woman. Who is she kidding?

I guess it takes one to know one. Why don't you just mind your own business? 8 min pace at age 50 is still pretty easy for someone who ran as well as she did. And to say it is shuffling along is also try, as 8 min pace feels like 6 min pace by that age. Besides it doesn't matter. Glad she is doing something she can enjoy. Getting old stinks.

She trained with the Oregon guys in the 90s, her easy runs were indeed very fast.

justthefacts wrote:

Uniyun wrote:

[quote]brosephnoper wrote:

Seven minute pace would have been a challenging training pace for a 50 year old woman. Who is she kidding?

I guess it takes one to know one. Why don't you just mind your own business? 8 min pace at age 50 is still pretty easy for someone who ran as well as she did. And to say it is shuffling along is also try, as 8 min pace feels like 6 min pace by that age. Besides it doesn't matter. Glad she is doing something she can enjoy. Getting old stinks.

You might want to rewrite that gibberish to make it coherent.

jorvack wrote:

She trained with the Oregon guys in the 90s, her easy runs were indeed very fast.

She wasn't 50 years old then.

I tried it here in the hood (Echo Park) but punks laughed and pointed at me so i had to stop and beat them up so I didn't get very far. Good workout though.