This would be really interesting if it wasn’t something you just made up. It’s not real. Most long distance runners , except ones like Kerr , are “long and thin” anyways, regardless of race.
Elevated lactate level is an indication of many things but lactate is a last chance fuel, it is not slowing you. Do push ups and sit ups, do enough and your lactate level will spike. You don't stop doing push ups and sit ups due to lactate spikes. You stop doing push ups and sit ups due to cardiovascular drift and/or you are too weak.
If a person is suffering a heart attack, lactate level may spike, a person isn't suffering heart attack because of lactate level spike.
Are you posting this because J Ingebrigtsen races well at 5000m in international 5000m races? Five-thousand meters and 10000m are phony events for almost 1500m/milers (5000m) and almost Marathoners (10000m).
I think the resurgence of Caucasian running success is primarily due to figuring out which training methodology works for different body types.
The East African are thin and really rely on more efficiency and economy due slimmer build and longer tendons.
caucasian athletes must rely on muscular endurance and lactate clearance more, hence why threshold works so well for them.
Thoughts?
Thats a myth. You clearly have never read Bakkens blog because he explains they do this training just not scientifically(they just are better at judging exertion).
If the East Africans are not doing threshold training maybe there is a reason why. Maybe they are laughing at all the athletes in the west doing threshold training.
I think the resurgence of Caucasian running success is primarily due to figuring out which training methodology works for different body types.
The East African are thin and really rely on more efficiency and economy due slimmer build and longer tendons.
caucasian athletes must rely on muscular endurance and lactate clearance more, hence why threshold works so well for them.
Thoughts?
Both athletes are doing threshold training. However I do think the body type has some influence on how that training is done.
East Africans generally prefer to do long unbroken tempos and progression runs.
Western athletes may find more success with splitting it up into threshold intervals.
Whether the difference is anything super significant remains to be seen, and more African athletes would need to adopt double threshold to truly evaluate it.
A real argument could be how different body types gain different benefits from super spikes
If the East Africans are not doing threshold training maybe there is a reason why. Maybe they are laughing at all the athletes in the west doing threshold training.
Their training is a lot more unstructured than Western athletes and I'm sure they may not know or call it threshold training but a lot of their miles are run in that zone.
If the East Africans are not doing threshold training maybe there is a reason why. Maybe they are laughing at all the athletes in the west doing threshold training.
Who says they don't do threshold work?
As to the 5K, 10K, and marathon runners, they may very well be doing threshold training but they just don't call it that. Whatever they do, it is kicking the crap out of western athletes.
If the East Africans are not doing threshold training maybe there is a reason why. Maybe they are laughing at all the athletes in the west doing threshold training.
I don't think they are laughing so much when they get passed in the last lap of a 5000m final by Ingebrigtsen.
It's the other way around. Finally western runners are doing as much threshold training as the Africans.
What comes naturally for African runners requires discipline and lactate measurements to get right for westerners.
As Marius Bakken puts it:
"When I went down to Kenya for the first time in 2000, I started doing lactate testing on Kenyan athletes as well. Their results differed from the average Norwegian runners in that the top Kenyan athletes had the ability to hit those levels of intensity as mentioned above to a much more natural degree as compared to the Norwegian ones.
In addition, on the harder training sessions, above the threshold – the same runners did not go nearly as high in lactate as the Norwegians in the above-mentioned project."
I think the resurgence of Caucasian running success is primarily due to figuring out which training methodology works for different body types.
The East African are thin and really rely on more efficiency and economy due slimmer build and longer tendons.
caucasian athletes must rely on muscular endurance and lactate clearance more, hence why threshold works so well for them.
Thoughts?
African runners of course do threshold running, but only one per day sessions. One example Geoffrey Kamworor and Eliud Kipchoge did 15 x 2000m @ 5:40 min with 200m easy jog before Kipchoge's first 2 hour marathon atenpt.
I think the resurgence of Caucasian running success is primarily due to figuring out which training methodology works for different body types.
The East African are thin and really rely on more efficiency and economy due slimmer build and longer tendons.
caucasian athletes must rely on muscular endurance and lactate clearance more, hence why threshold works so well for them.
Thoughts?
Both athletes are doing threshold training. However I do think the body type has some influence on how that training is done.
East Africans generally prefer to do long unbroken tempos and progression runs.
Western athletes may find more success with splitting it up into threshold intervals.
Whether the difference is anything super significant remains to be seen, and more African athletes would need to adopt double threshold to truly evaluate it.
A real argument could be how different body types gain different benefits from super spikes
And what do you think the difference is between Jacob doing 25x400 at roughly 10k pace with 30s standing rest and the Kenyans doing 1 hour of 60/60s jog at roughly 10k pace?
Shoes affect runners differently but I have seen zero evidence racial charactistics have anything to do with it.