Nobby,
I wish I was educated more in who Quax and some of the other great runners are from the NZ Lydiard days. Reading the posts referring to them, gives me an idea we are talking about some pretty solid athletes, who were very serious....weren't they all?
Please keep posting , this is all so brilliant. And like you have indicated for yourself, I also find the logic (rather than science) of Lydiard, easy for me to understand.