Hmm, not as much Ron Clarke info in there as it looked. So probably not the article you were referring to. But a really great read on old school training and mileage, so really glad I found it.
Hmm, not as much Ron Clarke info in there as it looked. So probably not the article you were referring to. But a really great read on old school training and mileage, so really glad I found it.
It may not be allowing you to post as "HRE" due to safeguards LRC put in place a couple of months ago as a disincentive to the use of unregistered usernames.
Ackley wrote:
It may not be allowing you to post as "HRE" due to safeguards LRC put in place a couple of months ago as a disincentive to the use of unregistered usernames.
But you can see that at one time it did let me post as HRE. Doesn't really matter.
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That's an incredible decline in performance despite still training a lot. It would be interesting to know what exactly leaks away at such a rate.
I still find that a lot of my training changes are much more "permanent".
I spent quite a lot of time trying to figure this out. If I was doing a Ph.D in exercise physiology a great research topic might be what happens people whose performances don't decline much as they age and those who do it a lot. why, for example did Bill Rodgers and Ron Hill both struggle when they were 40 to match Barry Brown's over 40 marathon time when they were both much faster at the marathon than Brown was in all of their best years and Brown had run for as long and did comparable mileage in all those years?
My own theory, which is probably rap, but what the heck, has something to do with Hans Selye's theories about kinetic and adaptive energy, the former being restorable by rest and fitness, the latter existing as a finite supply which we dip into in situations where we cannot restore our kinetic energy supply. Maybe years of hard racing and big miles dips into one's adaptive energy supply and limits how much energy you can use later on in life. But that's probably nonsense.
I have another theory about Brown's performance.
I saw your post in the humidity/altitude thread and panicked because I had totally forgotten your original name, as your input/articles had long been an inspiration. Thankfully, it came back to me after an hour.
I do have some technical questions. Were you more of a shuffler like Salazar / Goucher or a bouncer like Bill Rogers / Geb? Forefoot, midfoot, or heel striker? Yoda, Yogurt, or Yogi? If you could put a number to your steps per minute for your races and regular training paces, what would they be? Thanks!
Always value your posts HRE.
Maybe a difficult question as there was no way of measuring things back then, but how would you describe the intensity of your daily runs, in modern day terms?
Around LT1? Well below LT1? 75% of max hr? 70% of max hr? etc….
Did you do recovery runs, that were significantly easier than other days, or was every day around the same intensity/RPE?
Did you include any short strides, for faster leg turnover?
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