t-and-f: my position on peak age for distances

Everyone: I have long felt that one component that is lacking in a lot of post college runners routines is cross-country training/racing. An athlete spends 4-5 years of solid cross seasons every fall and then when they leave college they never return to cross from a training or racing

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It seems to me that the runners who drop XC from their schedule after college do better, not worse. Two notable examples that come to mind are Kevin Sullivan and Bernard Lagat. Both of them saw their careers blossom almost immediately upon being done with XC (Lagat had a season of eligibility

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Kevin and the IAAF might both be a little surprised that he dropped cross from his schedule. Must have been an impostor at worlds last year. http://www.iaaf.org/wxc01/results/data/M/XC/Rf.html Regards, Martin Dan Kaplan wrote: It seems to me that the runners who drop XC from their schedule

Re: t-and-f: my position on peak age for distances

From: Dan Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Dan Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:55:58 -0700 (PDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: my position on peak age for distances It seems to me that the runners who drop XC from their schedule after

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I stand corrected. Let me rephrase that: After XC was de-emphasized from their schedule... Regina Jacobs has run one XC race that I know of each of the past two years, but I don't think many would consider that a season she is focusing on. Just guessing, but Sullivan would probably be in the

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The emphasis on 3 seasons AND the lack of hard training. I think coaches are less risky with their athletes in college than they would be if they were not part of a team. If you're a coach and one of your stars goes down, or God forbid 2 or 3 guys, that's it... no hope for a respectful

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I shouldn't be speaking for Kevin here because I think he is still onlist(I think he is having a posting problem) but I think he is a believer in fall cross work as a key ingredient to an all round program. I don't think he raced last fall but I'm pretty sure he trained with the Michigan guys

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I don't know if it is apropos of anything but that is when swimmers seem to hit their peak. Regards, Martin Michael Contopoulos wrote: If you think about it, it makes sense that a runner, if he started early enough and hard enough, would be at his prime in his late teens to mid 20s.

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Regardless of the reasons, are we in agreement that most males reach their physical peak between the ages of 23-28? Because if we all do, I would be shocked. All I've ever heard was that I, as a male, won't reach my physical peak as a runner until 28-32. If you think about it, it makes

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I've actually never seen the 28-32 peak figure anywhere else. I've always heard mid to late 20's, with some people being able to hold their peak until their early 30's. That's not quite the same as peaking in the early 30's, mind you. Dan --- Michael Contopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: