tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162788546902616669.post3551253761902715615..comments2023-08-10T03:33:53.520-04:00Comments on Fritz's Running Babel: Strengths...Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13212124356724770687noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162788546902616669.post-18762480732509373762010-01-08T20:58:09.531-05:002010-01-08T20:58:09.531-05:00Perhaps... though part of me really thinks I need ...Perhaps... though part of me really thinks I need more than miles. Really, what I would most benefit from is something of an attitude adjustment. I shouldn't be angry with myself that trying to maintain a cadence near 180 on a hilly, snow covered path wearing over a pound of stuff on my feet is difficult.<br /><br />Especially the day after a tough run.Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13212124356724770687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162788546902616669.post-62114454566932878172010-01-07T19:00:35.872-05:002010-01-07T19:00:35.872-05:00Hey,
I empathize with you in this conundrum, both...Hey,<br /><br />I empathize with you in this conundrum, both in the immediate sense (why can't I run faster with all of this snow on the ground?), and in the long term (what speed workouts work to my strengths?).<br /><br />I posit to you the following: Until a runner spends a significant amount of time working their way up an extended period at that knife edge of fitness, they won't or can't know, and thus can't reasonably be expected have an answer to that question. As with all things running, it depends on experimentation, which we don't really have enough of yet.<br /><br />I think it takes three or four YEARS of running before a person can really understand the answer to that question, based on my experience and reading about other people's experiences in the swamp and other places where the fast people who put in lots of high miles talk (aka "the idiots like us"). Even more to the point, people like you and me, we are still in the kind of shape where we have so muc farther to go before we stop climbing the peak of our ability, and have to worry about tailoring our training to sharpen our ability by that magnitude. It's a depressing thought, but it provides room for so much improvement! ;-) <br /><br />With this year, I know I've only really learned three things definitively, neither of which is the answer to the question Daniels asks. My high school experiences really only give me a direction to tailor my experimentation, but no more than that. <br /><br />In the end, I think just going with the basic program as laid out for the first time, especially one as high mileage as Daniels, will really help more than any intensity will.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805793377968073187noreply@blogger.com