[email protected] (Lanceandrew) wrote in message news:<
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> hey anders...
hey lance boy
> Nope. I believe it's fair to call Zatopek an advanced marathoner after clocking 2:23 & winning
> Helsinki '52 gold in the process. Prior to that he never ran a marathon before...ever. Lot's of
> people take up running and within their first year of the sport clock "advanced marathon" status
> by doing 2:40, etc.
What´s the matter with you(1), are you daft or something? How did you manage to read and comprehend
what I wrote(2) between two dashes?
(1) I know what the matter with me is
(2) And you snipped out of the quoted sentence.
> Results are all that matters. That's how you get preferred seeded status for races...by
> results....not age, training, or previous experience.
Seed or status has absolutely nothing to do with the point in question, which had everything to do
with when someone could follow a training program for "advanced" marathoners and when someone (with
information limited to a 3hrs+ finish time) could tell someone else that he shouldn´t.
FWIW when we know the number of Zatopek´s training years and his average mileage, we can easily
consider him eminently suited for any training program for "advanced" marathoners _before he ran his
first marathon_, cannot we?
> ha....i don't. i accept my circumstances and press on....that's all i can do. churchill said it
> best, "when you're going through hell, just keep going"...besides the circumstances that are
> keeping me from getting in the appropriate training (in the context of real life) are minor
> compared to the challenges others have who are trying to do the same thing as me.
As much as I could admire your attitude, I would´ve liked you to be more specific about _how_ you
actually press on - and since there are others with similar challenges and RL handicaps, I´d imagine
it would be of interest to many readers out there.
Not to mention that I, for one, must confess to being quite curious about the training of someone
whose racing I know so much more about
> yes...i have my moments of panic and freaking out knowing i'm appreciably behind in my
> schedule...but i do my best to keep it all in perspective. i'm a big believer in personal will &
> determination making up for insufficient preparation and physical shortcomings. not an ideal
> position you want to place yourself in but sometimes your only position.
If one has a training program with six scheduled runs a week, but one, as a rule, ends up missing
any two of those, then one obviously gets behind. However, it would seem appropriate to change tack
completely and take up a program with three or four scheduled runs on "moving calendar days".
One obviously wouldn´t move them at perfect liberty, but such a program would still seem better
suited to your situation than one which leaves you a bit panicky (and possibly cramming too much,
perhaps "to catch up", into any unexpected open slot).
The French, you know, are quite capable of planning sub-3 programs with four sessions a week - and
they are not in- frequently capable of actually going sub-3, too
Anders
