[rrheyn]

rrheyn on August 20, 2007 at 12:58 am #13304

In the past we had a few famous runners who never touched a weight but did only bounchingtechniques, thats what lydiard's book tells us and his "poulain" Peter Snell was his living example.
1.44.3 in 1960 on a grassfield and at least two Olympic titles. Are we missing some point, that this is maybe an interesting question. He's not passing in our frame of overall speedtraining, many resistancework, but just the opposite lots of endurance.
I saw Alan Webb in our little village where he run a new American Mile record in 3.46 and i observed his warm up 1 hr before and especialy his coolingdown of two hours, with lots of 400's in 18km /hr. We were all amassed that this guy had just broke a milerecord and was still training.

[Mike Young]

Mike Young on September 9, 2007 at 10:42 am #66240

If you want to run fast the intensity has to come from somewhere….regardless of the event. In the sprints, the window of beneficial stimuli is relatively small compared to distance runners who appear to be able to benefit equally from very fast running, higher intensity weights, and even plyometric work. Many of the best distance runners are combining all three of these options AND still managing very high volumes of endurance training / mileage.

ELITETRACK Founder

[rrheyn]

rrheyn on December 9, 2007 at 3:25 pm #66241

thanks Mike.