I'm glad Salazar himself agrees with this armchair quarterback, who posted the same upon hearing of the workout before the race. 3-4 days out, not a problem.
I'm glad Salazar himself agrees with this armchair quarterback, who posted the same upon hearing of the workout before the race. 3-4 days out, not a problem.
Another way of putting it is that delayed onset muscle soreness after a workout or race usually appears about 36-48 hours after. The workout was a day or two too soon to make a world record attempt successful.
Today's race settles the argument.
He skipped the workout two days before, ran slower and got beat.
3:31.58 equates to slightly faster than his mile time according to the IAAF scoring tables.
zxcvxcv wrote:
Another way of putting it is that delayed onset muscle soreness after a workout or race usually appears about 36-48 hours after. The workout was a day or two too soon to make a world record attempt successful.
Delayed onset muscle soreness after a tiny workout like that? Hahaha!
malmo wrote:
Your perspective is clouded by your glaring lack of experience.
That workout would have been easy for me to do back in the day with half the rest. Imagine how easy that was for Kejelcha? Not only was it easy for him he had time to eat a hot dog between reps.
I remember Philbert Bayi running a 4: 10 mile the day before he broke the WR in Kingston in 1974. People were aghast. A 4:10 mile barly got his heart started, but just the warmup he needed after a long flight.
But its not optimal. Hes unlikely to set a WR withouth an optimal lead up to the race. Your blue collar thoughts doesn't work if you want to be the best, the sport is getting too professional.
Filbert, mon.
I suspect it was familiarization with the track and the bank - i.e. run close to pace with a lot of rest (so it was relatively non-stressful) with the goal of getting the feel of the turns at speed. He had said Kejelcha wasn’t really familiar/comfortable with indoor racing, especially compared to the other guys, so it was probably more to get that mechanical learning curve tuned.
Pretty sure there was more to the Bayi workout than the 4:10.
But Bayi is much smarter than Salazar.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?