I didn't read the article because of the paywall. But I've followed Rideout on Strava for a while. His training methods are not a secret. He runs 80 miles per week year round. He does traditional interval and tempo workouts regularly. He races often.
If there's any "secret," it's how he sustains that volume and intensity, while carrying that muscle mass and without ever taking a day off, at age 50+.
I didn't read the article because of the paywall. But I've followed Rideout on Strava for a while. His training methods are not a secret. He runs 80 miles per week year round. He does traditional interval and tempo workouts regularly. He races often.
If there's any "secret," it's how he sustains that volume and intensity, while carrying that muscle mass and without ever taking a day off, at age 50+.
There's no "secret" there. Dude is a former gym-bro and doing TRT.
I didn't read the article because of the paywall. But I've followed Rideout on Strava for a while. His training methods are not a secret. He runs 80 miles per week year round. He does traditional interval and tempo workouts regularly. He races often.
If there's any "secret," it's how he sustains that volume and intensity, while carrying that muscle mass and without ever taking a day off, at age 50+.
It's not the workouts that are the tell, it's the recovery, or lack of it. Running 80 mpw and doing interval and tempo workouts are well-known and effective ways to race faster times. The mystery that no one has solved is how to retain muscle mass and continue that kind of training density past age ~50 without pharmaceutical assistance.
There do seem to be some individuals with beneficial mutations that allow them to retain muscle mass as they age. But “I’m the biggest alpha male on the starting line” is not inspiring a lot of confidence that this is another case like that. I'd love to be wrong about this, but trying to just run more and harder in your 50s is not a realistic model to follow.
I didn't read the article because of the paywall. But I've followed Rideout on Strava for a while. His training methods are not a secret. He runs 80 miles per week year round. He does traditional interval and tempo workouts regularly. He races often.
If there's any "secret," it's how he sustains that volume and intensity, while carrying that muscle mass and without ever taking a day off, at age 50+.
It's not the workouts that are the tell, it's the recovery, or lack of it. Running 80 mpw and doing interval and tempo workouts are well-known and effective ways to race faster times. The mystery that no one has solved is how to retain muscle mass and continue that kind of training density past age ~50 without pharmaceutical assistance.
There do seem to be some individuals with beneficial mutations that allow them to retain muscle mass as they age. But “I’m the biggest alpha male on the starting line” is not inspiring a lot of confidence that this is another case like that. I'd love to be wrong about this, but trying to just run more and harder in your 50s is not a realistic model to follow.
He is 5'10, 157 pounds. In other words, although more muscular than the typical fast runner, he looks like he has more mass than he does and is still at the lower end of a healthy BMI.
I didn't read the article because of the paywall. But I've followed Rideout on Strava for a while. His training methods are not a secret. He runs 80 miles per week year round. He does traditional interval and tempo workouts regularly. He races often.
If there's any "secret," it's how he sustains that volume and intensity, while carrying that muscle mass and without ever taking a day off, at age 50+.
There's no "secret" there. Dude is a former gym-bro and doing TRT.
What is legitimate Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) and when is just a guise for steroid use? There can be a very fine line between testosterone repla...
Running 2:30 marathon at age 51, which he did at Chicago last Fall, age grades to 91.7%. How many men 50+ are age grading over 90%? Not that many. So yes, that’s fast for age 51.
He is 5'10, 157 pounds. In other words, although more muscular than the typical fast runner, he looks like he has more mass than he does and is still at the lower end of a healthy BMI.
Not quite. A BMI of 22.5 is closer to the upper end of normal (24.9) than the lower end (18.5).
My BMI is slightly lower than his and I'm just a few months older. It's not necessarily the fast times that freak me out, but how quickly he can recover from a race. Last fall he ran 2:35 in Berlin, then sub-2:30 at Chicago just 2 weeks later. The year before, he ran 2:33 at NYC, then ran an even better HM time (1:10) two weeks later. I don't know about you, but at my age, I'm still trying to walk normally two weeks after a marathon, not heading out to win my age group in a WMM or knock down a fast HM.
Could his results be real? I mean, maybe? He spent a while doing triathlon and trail running. Let's say he spends a decade building up a huge base in the tri and trails, then shifts focus to road running and improves every year for 6 years after that. Newbie gains, right? I'd believe it at 35 or even 40. But things start to happen at 50 that make the frequent high-level racing hard to take at face value.
The problem with all these guys is that they almost always turn out to be cheaters. Eddy H, Kevin Castille, etc..
The rest, SoCalCush, Pete Magill, etc...age... and slow down.
ain't that the f-in truth. in the last 15 years, easy paces have become tempo paces; tempo paces have become race pace, and what used to be my 200-400m kick at the end of races has become my all-out fresh efforts. that said, i don't think this dude's results or training absolutely screams drugs, certainly not in the ways that other cheaters' results did. but i'm not sure it merits a WSJ article either (there were a few higher age grade %s at the atlanta 5k i did today, as there are at most masters national events). they'd be better served writing an article on the exploits of betty lindberg or michelle rohl or a few others...
