Seb Coe (Esquire) 'When you’re running a hundred miles a week, a couple of beers after a day’s training isn’t a problem'

If you have a couple of beers after EVERY training day, it will easily add up and hurt you. However, if you are doing it in a casual way (about 3-8 times per month), it should not have much of an effect at all.

When you're running 100 miles a week, a little liver damage is the least of your problems.

I think marijuologist has it dead on. Actually, when Coe said he was "only' doing 40, 45 miles a week or whatever, he was referring to his "hard mileage." He and his father considered anything slower than about 6min pace as piddle jogging.

Coe always recalls he ran a lot more when drunk.

"Seb Coes father was in the medical field."

Flat out lie. Peter Coe was a design engineer for cutlery.

"The first athlete, and only athlete he ever "coached" was Seb."

First, yes, only wrong. He also coach Wendy Smith who won the silver medal in the 1984 3000 meter.

566 wrote:

They didn't have EPO then. Not until about 93

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Was around before you could buy it at your local wal-mart. Cyclists and Euro runners had access back in late 1970s.

Seb Coes father was in the medical field. The first athlete, and only athlete he ever "coached" was Seb. Amazing man. Amazing pharmocologist.[/quote]

10/10 Excellent. Just excellent.

"If you have a couple of beers after EVERY training day, it will easily add up and hurt you"

I doubt it. A couple of beers should not hurt you if your definition of "couple" is "two" normal beers. If couple means 3-4 or "beer" means a tall 8-10% IPA, then, yes, it will hurt you...and not just in running.

Now if you are prone to addition, then 2 becomes 10 very easily, but that's a different subject.

Glad to see Coe's comment. Heck, I've seen guys on come on here and freak out if they had an ice cream cone after a workout. A really hard-training runner may have as many as 5000 calories a day to replace. It can't all be bean sprouts.

I doubt that he ever approached 100 miles in a week.

Marius Bakken saw the original training logs. The mileage was there.

not a tard wrote:

Marius Bakken saw the original training logs. The mileage was there.

Yes, later in his career and during Olympic years, but he was certainly on a lot less than 100 miles per week in the years leading up to 1980, when a student. There was a documentary prior to Moscow where Peter Coe stated that it was the first year they had the time to up the mileage. Several interviews stated between 40 and 60 miles per week between 77 and 80.

not a tard wrote:

Marius Bakken saw the original training logs. The mileage was there.

lol

WRONG!

You are correct in that Marius DID see the logs as he was trained by Peter Coe for a time in the '90s I believe it was.

The mileage however was confirmed by Marius to be what Peter & Seb always said. NOT 100 miles per week. Not anywhere close to 100 miles per week in fact.

He said the most he got up to was about 70 per week and ONLY A FEW weeks that high. This was in the winter of '80-'81, before his best season ever.

This is consistent with a BMC interview in which Peter said the most Seb ever did was get up to about 70 in the winter a few weeks. I made a thread on this once titled "Seb Coe's Mileage Confirmed! The debate is now over" or something like that. Look it up in the search archives.

Marius said that Seb did not count warm up jogs because they were just that - warm ups. Easy, relatively slow trots to get the blood flowing. Not much aerobic benefit.

Marius said if you want to count every step then add 10-15 miles per week extra and you get 85 at the most. And again, ONLY A FEW weeks that high.

Don't make up stuff that isn't true.

With that said, I really do not know what to believe with seb's mileage because there is so much conflicting information out there.

I don't know why it is hard for some to believe that he did not run anywhere near 100 per week though. There are many more 800/mile guys out there who never ran 100 per week.

Steve Cram did 60-70 per week in the winter. He once tried running as much as 120 but injured himself and found this to not be beneficial and went back to his usual 60-70 average.

GenericID wrote:

deanouk wrote:

Idiot. He was an engineer who ran a cutlery factory.

No EPO was used in any sport until the 90's.

Deano, I think the poster was taking the piss (Walmart doesn't sell EPO)!

I think you are probably wrong in your timeline for EPO, purified EPO was around in the 70s, and rhEPO was in trials much earlier than the 90s - and, as we've seen with GW501516, drug cheats don't always wait around for the clinical trials to finish. I

Also, nobody has mentioned this yet, but Peter Coe did train another Olympic medallist.

I think you are definitely wrong.

He never ran more than 100 miles a week and he didn't used to drink either or would have 'half a shandy'

I read in Pat Butchers book he was got drunk celebrating a comeback win but that was it