5k to Marathon wrote:
Thanks truck. I love you too. Thanks for being a sweet heart. I wasn't ignoring it. Ill be honest I am by no means an expert like you when it comes to Marathon training. . I was simply stating that's a lot of intensity and everything was marathonish pace or faster. I realize the tempos are significantly slower than his marathon pace but on very tough courses and long distances(18-25 milesish) hence I used the word marathonish. I was simply contrasting the training of the world's best marathoner vs the 80/20 , 20/80 or whatever method that's becoming popular. Not saying I agree or disagree with either or saying ones better than the other. Thanks for understanding! Sorry for processing information from a different perspective/lens/background than you do. I'll remember next time not to post something that makes you feel the need to put another person down. Have a nice day!
Man, piss off. You're mad that in your made up words don't mean the same to you as to everyone else?
I was simply stating that's a lot of intensity and everything was marathonish pace or faster. I realize the tempos are significantly slower than his marathon pace but on very tough courses and long distances(18-25 milesish) hence I used the word marathonish."
You can't decide that 25 seconds faster than marathon pace is high intensity, 10k-HM type stuff, but 25 seconds slower is still "marathonish".
And if you wanted to compare Kipchoge's training to 80/20, you should have said something about 80/20. More generally, why compare the training of the world's best marathoner to whatever was on the cover of Runner's World last month? You shouldn't be making the false equivalency between the two, and certainly not make them on neutral terms.
I'm not as angry at you as I sound, but to tie it back to another post in this thread, the idea in the US that you can train like a Runner's World article and be a world elite is ridiculous and damaging to our runners' mentalities. These notions in your posts are what got me going.
Elite training is different, and something to be worked for. Is is not that same as what a 2:20 guy does, or even a 2:10 guy. But simple comapre/contrast observations are not helpful. The conversation should be "what can I do to start training like that."