mediocre forever wrote:
Hi there, Father Time! wrote:
I don't get the point of this thread. When you are in your 40s, an easy 5 mile run at 8 minute pace is a perfectly sensible way to stay in shape.
At his age, if you're not training for masters competition, this is the sort of thing you ought to be doing to maintain reasonable weight and fitness and not get injured, which is where you lose fitness. It's better to get 80% of the fitness gains of running than to try for 100%, get injured, and be getting 0% of the benefits.
You would just think that a C level effort from a former elite might be a bit better than joe jogger.
That's all.
It's an interesting topic. I read that he raced at 142 and then after retirement beefed up to over 200 pounds. That's packing on a lot of pounds. Also, I read that he didn't run at all for 5 years. Who on earth could, for example, run sub 16 5k with those conditions? Zero running for five years and 60+ pounds overweight?