I always wondered if Lopes had a method that he figured out by his late 30s
or that it just took that long to get lucky.
Tom D
----- Original Message -----
From: Post, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Tom Derderian' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: RE: t-and-f: Tergat Out Of World Cross!
> Granted the level of competition world-wide might be a lot tougher these
> days but consider this back in 1985:
>
> On March 24, Carlos Lopes won the World Cross Country Championships by
four
> seconds over Paul Kipkoech.
>
> Four weeks later, on April 20, Lopes took 52 seconds off the world record
in
> the marathon, 2:07:12 in Rotterdam.
>
> Whatever training methods he was doing, worked for him.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Derderian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 1:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: t-and-f: Tergat Out Of World Cross!
>
>
> Referring to cross-country and the marathon:
>
> ``The training methods for the two events are very different and it would
be
> pretentious to think I can handle both competently,'' Tergat said.
>
> Imagine an American athlete declining to be pretentious!
>
> humble Tom
>
