> Ed, do you seriously believe the reports that Tergat was running sub-60 > halfs and sub-27 10k's > on merely 60 miles a week? I don't even trust Khannouchi when he claims he > is doing > only 90 miles a week...
> http://www.runnersworld.com/dailynew/archives/2001/April/010403.html > > "The competition: IAAF London correspondent Duncan Mackay reports that Paul > Tergat is training over 150 miles a week for the London marathon, sometimes > running a marathon a day at altitude" No, of course I don't believe that. Any more than I believe that many sub 2:15 marathoners do a lot of long runs at 6:50 pace as someone earlier suggested they should. Given the various contradictions, I don't think we know what Tergat is doing. - Ed Parrot