Sandbagging your mileage wrote:
I think he and that other British guy who broke the 4:00 minute barrier under-reported their training. An ego thing or in the later case to avoid being accused of wasting their time on a "trivial pursuit". People say they did low mileage, but they were probably doing a lot more un-reported miles, in my opinion.
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This has been discussed many times before, but the training philosophy of Peter Coe was definitely towards more quality than quantity. He was against the high mileage approach that was dominant during that time, thanks to Lydiard, and was interested about Frank Horwill's 5-tier method (although not all the paces was used during base I think). If I remember correctly Peter Coe contacted Horwill, and George Gandy helped on the circuits and weights (?) sessions and plyometric exercises during his earlier years.