It was October last year when I gave a presentation about setting goals in general, with running as a theme, to year 12. As a result 8 of them are doing GNR this year for Macmillan Cancer Relief.
There are quite a few good kids around. It's a shame that the sort who will hang around parks and streets and heckle runners give them all abad name.
Ed occasionally posts on LetsRun.com. Below is a recent post regarding his training…
“As with most runners I suppose training changes over a period of time. When I was in my 40,s I did mainly interval training with a fair amount of brisk distance work. Maybe a 50/50 mix. I was concentrating on middle distance running. Achilles tendon problems caused me to gradually do less and less interval workouts. It has reached the point now that I don't do any workouts on a track. My training is now done on the roads of a small cemetary on a circuit of about 1/3 mile, mostly in shade. The current objective is to run every day year round for 3 hours at a slow comfortable pace. I don't count or time the laps I run so I don't know my pace with any accuracy. I just try to run easily and minimise impact, starting out very slowly for the first 10/15 minutes but after that not making any effort to change the pace for the remainder of the session. For the 2 or 3 days before a race I would plan to run shorter sessions maybe an hour long and include a bit of a tempo run or a quasi interval session of laps of the cemetary. I have had trouble achieving the objective this year for various reasons, nasal infections, an achilles problem and lately a knee problem. I generally just rest to get rid of these problems and then I start back gradually maybe only 10 minutes initially, if there are no new interruptions it would take at least 2 months to get back up to 3 hours. As a result of the problems I have had this year I am not going to have any extended period of 3 hour runs before the Toronto Waterfront marathon on the 24th September, so I will have to scale back my ambitions accordingly. Although there has been talk of a 3 hour possibility my realistic objective will be more modest than that and the pacing plan will preclude sub 3.”
all I will say is "distribution curves" and "why can't I be at the same end as Ed?"
I was in Lausanne recently and went to the Olympic Museum where, outside the main building, they have a permanent high jump and pole vault bar and a shot circle with a male and female shot............
when you see the reality of the world records for these it takes your breath away.......
how the hell Sotormayor got over that high jump bar is amazing........I had to jump to touch it! and as for chucking a 16kg shot over 22m - phew.........
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that would be a brilliant overseas winner.
There are quite a few good kids around.
It's a shame that the sort who will hang around parks and streets and heckle runners give them all abad name.
I wonder of the BBC know who he is though.
The times are amaziong too
but to me
Its the
Im just going to do this
As you say, it's not just about the times.
he undersatnds his body
he runs daily
its how he is
now, not everyone could do that
but he can and he does
good on him
“As with most runners I suppose training changes over a period of time. When I was in my 40,s I did mainly interval training with a fair amount of brisk distance work. Maybe a 50/50 mix. I was concentrating on middle distance running. Achilles tendon problems caused me to gradually do less and less interval workouts. It has reached the point now that I don't do any workouts on a track.
My training is now done on the roads of a small cemetary on a circuit of about 1/3 mile, mostly in shade. The current objective is to run every day year round for 3 hours at a slow comfortable pace. I don't count or time the laps I run so I don't know my pace with any accuracy. I just try to run easily and minimise impact, starting out very slowly for the first 10/15 minutes but after that not making any effort to change the pace for the remainder of the session. For the 2 or 3 days before a race I would plan to run shorter sessions maybe an hour long and include a bit of a tempo run or a quasi interval session of laps of the cemetary. I have had trouble achieving the objective this year for various reasons, nasal infections, an achilles problem and lately a knee problem. I generally just rest to get rid of these problems and then I start back gradually maybe only 10 minutes initially, if there are no new interruptions it would take at least 2 months to get back up to 3 hours. As a result of the problems I have had this year I am not going to have any extended period of 3 hour runs before the Toronto Waterfront marathon on the 24th September, so I will have to scale back my ambitions accordingly. Although there has been talk of a 3 hour possibility my realistic objective will be more modest than that and the pacing plan will preclude sub 3.”
all I will say is "distribution curves" and "why can't I be at the same end as Ed?"
I was in Lausanne recently and went to the Olympic Museum where, outside the main building, they have a permanent high jump and pole vault bar and a shot circle with a male and female shot............
when you see the reality of the world records for these it takes your breath away.......
how the hell Sotormayor got over that high jump bar is amazing........I had to jump to touch it! and as for chucking a 16kg shot over 22m - phew.........
Is there a website you can access to find out what the age records are for women of various age categories?