it's like 60 minutes........ wrote:
He is going to be running less than an hour. If you can't recover in two weeks from an hour run, you shouldn't be doing a marathon.
armchair coach here
it's like 60 minutes........ wrote:
He is going to be running less than an hour. If you can't recover in two weeks from an hour run, you shouldn't be doing a marathon.
armchair coach here
Not surprised by the racing schedule but surprised they want to travel to do it. Being on a plane/switching time zones rapidly is terrible for health and fitness and this is not a short ride...maybe they have some magic pill for that.
$ he is an OG medalist he'll get nice appearance money. Even Rupps babies need diapers. His camp has announced he is using the 1/2 as a tune-up. They have not played up a race for the win or mentioned a time goal.
A conservative neg split race and take what ever place that brings?
Run 15km with the lead pack and target a 1:02 pace for the run in?
Run Marathon pace targeting a sub 2:08 effort at Boston?
or one of 57 other options
NoLaPassingThrough wrote:
Not surprised by the racing schedule but surprised they want to travel to do it. Being on a plane/switching time zones rapidly is terrible for health and fitness and this is not a short ride...maybe they have some magic pill for that.
Wonder if he'll go back to home base or just hang in Boston till Boston.
carbloading for cash wrote:
Run Marathon pace targeting a sub 2:08 effort at Boston?
Targeting 2:07:47 gets him third American All Time.
I must be delusional wrote:
gold medal-worthy performanceHe's been at altitude in the mountains in the eastern Czech Republic. It's not a coincidence that he's racing there too.
That's interesting. I must have just been imagining talking to him and Alberto on campus last week.
That's ok, I imagine a lot of things too, totally normal!
NoLaPassingThrough wrote:
Not surprised by the racing schedule but surprised they want to travel to do it. Being on a plane/switching time zones rapidly is terrible for health and fitness and this is not a short ride...maybe they have some magic pill for that.
The travel jumped out at me as well.
Plenty in the US...
http://www.halfmarathons.net/race-calendar-april/gold medal-worthy performance wrote:
He's been at altitude in the mountains in the eastern Czech Republic. It's not a coincidence that he's racing there too.
do you have specifics.
My longshot pick for top three:
Kenyan Nicodemus Kipkurui KIMUTAI
I hope his thyroid is able to recover in time. Hopefully he has a way to adjust to this problem.
Is that all? What a wiener . I once ran TWO 2:09s 14 days apart.
somebloke wrote:
it's like 60 minutes........ wrote:He is going to be running less than an hour. If you can't recover in two weeks from an hour run, you shouldn't be doing a marathon.
armchair coach here
How long do you think it takes to recover from a 60 minute race?
Dathan Ritzenhein ran a 1:00:56 half marathon 3 weeks before running 2:07:47 at Chicago.
The travel aspect of this is the real head scratcher, not the distance or effort, which is likely to amount to nothing more than a glorified tempo.
Not a mild mannered korean wrote:
Rupp is going to run 58:57. You heard it here first.
No I didn't. I heard a guy in Starbucks say that earlier this morning. He was talking to his mother on his cellphone about Rupp and Prefontaine. Very knowledgeable, as was his mother (I could overhear her commentary). The guy predicted Rupp will run 58:57, his mom -- who sounded about 80 -- predicted a DNS.
Curious poster wrote:
Has there been any news on how Rupp is doing with his injury?
Logic enters the forum. ^ Prauge will be a test to see if his foot is healed. Expensive experiment.
mypredictor wrote:
There's no question he and his coach think he's in great shape or they wouldn't be doing this. My question is how important would a HM AR be to him? Doing well at Boston remains the main goal of course, and ARs don't seem as important as wins to OTC, but I would have to think Rupp would be happy with a HM AR followed a few weeks later with a 3rd place 2:05-2:06. Agreed?
How do you think Ryan Hall would feel about losing his HM American Record? Wonder if Ryan would consider it gods punishment.
Think about this wrote:
mypredictor wrote:There's no question he and his coach think he's in great shape or they wouldn't be doing this. My question is how important would a HM AR be to him? Doing well at Boston remains the main goal of course, and ARs don't seem as important as wins to OTC, but I would have to think Rupp would be happy with a HM AR followed a few weeks later with a 3rd place 2:05-2:06. Agreed?
How do you think Ryan Hall would feel about losing his HM American Record? Wonder if Ryan would consider it gods punishment.
God has already punished him by giving him low testosterone but ya maybe thats not enough. We'll have to wait and see
I guess it's safe to say his plantar F that caused him to pull out of Houston was a very minor blip on the radar.
It's like 60 minutes.......... wrote:
somebloke wrote:armchair coach here
How long do you think it takes to recover from a 60 minute race?
Dear armchair coach, do you know what peaking is? Recovery is not the issue per se.
bill paxton loved 36 mafia wrote:
Letsrun 2017:
"today's runners are soft and don't race enough like the guys did back in the day"
also Letsrun 2017:
starts this thread
You know letsrun's not a monolithic entity, right? Different people here have different opinions...