Yup Mike, the Letsrun mentality has infected you. Find one
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Contopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: t-and-f: 12:57 last 5000 Malmo, on Letsrun you noted that what Geb does is pretty standard training. I disagree. The guy does 4 days of workouts in a row (not including the in betwen easy hour runs) ON TOP of his 3 hour long run followed by a 1 hour run. hard 15-30km run 1 hour easy sprint workout 1 hour easy hills 1 hours easy 3x1200 to 8x2000 w hour easy You tell me that Meb, Pepper, Abdi, Browne, Johnson are doing 4 workouts in consecutive days (with a "sprint" session in there... which of those guys does a "sprint" session?)...on top of a 3 hour run followed by a one hour run once a week... well... round of drinks is on me. geb trains much harder than our guys. And he's supremely confident. And he's supremely talented. That's pretty darn near impossible to beat. >From: "malmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "malmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'edndana'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: t-and-f: 12:57 last 5000 >Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:18:03 -0400 > >I'm basing my wager on this crowd: > >My guess is that Culpepper is the only one who could run sub-25, with >Bickford and Kennedy close. > >27:13.98 ..... Meb Keflezighi (Nik) 01 >27:20.56 ......... Mark Nenow (Pum) 86 >27:25.61 ..... Alberto Salazar (AW) 82 >27:29.16 ...... Craig Virgin (FRRT) 80 >27:31.34 ...... Todd Williams (adi) 95 >27:33.93 ..... Alan Culpepper (adi) 01 >27:37.17 .... Bruce Bickford (NBal) 85 >27:38.37 ........ Bob Kennedy (Nik) 99 >27:41.05 ........ Ed Eyestone (BYU) 85 >27:42.83 .... Abdi Abdirahman (Nik) 02 > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of edndana >Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:43 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: t-and-f: 12:57 last 5000 > > >Malmo - > > I can't tell if you agree or disagree with me from your comment. >I may be wrong, as I am largely basing my observations on the people I >ran against in high school and college. Most of the people that knew >around my ability (9:50 2-mile in HS, 32:00 10K after college) could do >between 24.5 and 25.5 seconds. I've done 25.1 in a race and I am not >particularly fast (My best 100m is 12.5 wind aided). > > So, I can only conclude that guys who are 3-5 minutes faster than me >at 10K could beat me by a few tenths for the 200m. Most of these guys >were a lot faster than me in high school as well. It just doesn't seem >reasomable that the group of guys running 9:00 in high school is not >any faster over 200m than the group of guys running 9:45 - as a group. >Now maybe the distance runners slow down over 200m between high school >and their mid-20's - I certainly didn't, but I also wasn't doing 100+ >miles per week of distance training like I should have been. > >- Ed Parrot > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "malmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'edndana'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:10 PM >Subject: RE: t-and-f: 12:57 last 5000 > > > > I'd be a big seller on that claim. > > > > malmoo > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of edndana > > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:01 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: t-and-f: 12:57 last 5000 > > > > > > > Perhaps our 10k guys (and 5k guys) go about training too much like > > > they would for a marathon and don't focus enough on speed. Geb > > > constantly > > talks > > > about improving his speed. How many of our 10k guys can run 24.5 > > > flat > > > > > out let alone at the end of a 10k? > > > > Jeez, I'm sure at least 8 of our top 10 10K guys could run 24.5 all > > out, if not all of them. They may never actually have done so, but > > I bet nearly all of them could. > > - Ed Parrot > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Get MSN 8 and help protect your children with advanced parental controls. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/parental
