Woody Kincaid on Mike Smith's training - Thresholds feature faster pace and less rest

What the heck .. why so many post removals …??

You know some people when they see word "rojo" something goes off in their heads they can't control; you know like red on a bull.

he needs to learn to not have a racing just to win at all costs mindset at time trial type events like sound running 10k.

Woodys use of the term “threshold” and “double threshold” in recent interviews is interesting to me. He said in a Citius interview Jerry did single threshold workouts around 10 miles and Smith did double threshold with the example of 6 miles in the morning and 6 miles in the evening. This does not sound anything like the Norwegian idea of double threshold which is run at intervals at 2.5mmol morning and 3.5mmol evening. It just seems like tempo around threshold by feel, or a more traditional use of the term threshold. I feel like even 99% of pro runners are not doing very scientific training. Not that it seems to matter much. It seems like most pro runners have never even done lactate testing more than once or twice

Unless he is talking about the total milage of interval sessions at threshold? Woody drop your BTC training logs

Hi Henrik! Hope your training is going well!

Yeah def not traditional threshold. Intensities are a bit higher, closer to CV.

Do you even think before you post?

Drew Bosley does his threshold workouts around 4:44-4:50 pace. His 3k and 5k would suggest a threshold more like 4:35 . So I would say they’re definitely running slower than tradition threshold intensity, most likely due to altitude.

If Bosley’s true threshold is 4:35 pace at 7000 feet, we’ll than he’s tremendously underperforming. He should get on a plane tomorrow to Boston and challenge EK.

And if he’s doing his double threshold work at 4:45 pace at altitude, at his age, it’s no wonder the vast majority of NAU guys don’t improve much after college (I didn’t say all, so chill). Most are fully burnt.

And this is why college programs should stay away from double thresholds. 99.99% mess it up. Better to just rely on the 12.8 scholarships going to blue chip distance kids and having them run year around in Flag. Titles, titles, titles without the gimmicks.

¿Como rojo en un toro?

Just so I’m clear, I should listen to your training advice or the coach of the team that have won 6 out 7 cross country titles?

I had the audacity to point out that there was already a thread on this and even provided a link to it.

someone else asked for an update on the garage situation

I think its interesting he implies he was doing thresholds on his own slower then when he went to mike he went faster. Maybe there's some magic in there, not doing thresholds too fast for a few months getting in shape, then doing them faster. I know that might seem obvious but maybe too many people just try to run them at the pace they think they should be at instead of building.

This is what he is saying.

BTC has well documented workouts that are broken up intervals adding up to 10 miles. Intervals of 1 to 4 miles individually.

Interval refers to the recovery. Your post makes no sense.