starting doubles (Read 1513 times)

Oh good sweet lord. Could we stop the petty bickering and focus on the original question that was asked? Its not fair to the OP to hijack his legit thread with all this...nattering. I swear, its like being in a nursing home of old married folks.

Look; I didnt' mean to "attack" him; obviously, some people took it as an attack and he seems to have been offended.

My problem isn't with the advice. I've done that sort of training before and probably will again. In fact, as a suggestion it wouldn't have bugged me. What bugged me was specifically calling me out and stating that my advice was no good and the underlying assumption that there's only 1 way to train. I just like to answer people's questions with personal experiences if I can to show when something I say has some basis in having been done as opposed to just being a theory. There are advantages and limitations to training once per day or training multiple times per day.

However, I worked directly with a guy by the name of Arthur Lydiard (I hope you recognize this name)

Name dropping is more impressive when its your own name.

Nobby - I can't imagine what Blaine might have said to offend you, but attacking a person on a message board because you think you're more hardcore than them is pretty sad.

I don't think that was what he was necessarily doing. I just found it humorous that he called me soft (whether he meant to or not) and I'm a competitive alpha male type person (My business is called Run to Win, after all!) so I like taking the obvious opportunities to assert myself now and again.

Blaine - I'm from Maine too. Maybe I'll see you at a race sometime.

If you race in Southern Maine, I'll be around all season. With my goal marathon being on May 4, I doubt that I'll be racing at Sea Dogs but will probably be there to volunteer some time. If you are near Portland, I'm one of the sponsors for the Back Cove weekly racing series on Wednesday nights, and for the past 2 years I've been at all but 2 of them (missed 1 in 2006 because I was on my honeymoon, and 1 in 2007 because I was at a conference which I thankfully returned home from on my anniversary!) That's usually a manageable crowd for finding folks at and the races are a lot of fun even if you just treat them as workouts.

Oh good sweet lord. Could we stop the petty bickering and focus on the original question that was asked?

This is a good situation for where private messages would be nice. Then I could have stuck to how I integrate doubles into my current training cycle here in the thread (which is what was being asked how to do, after all) and responded to the personal attack (intentional or not) privately. But as such, so it goes. I had fun for a few minutes.

Sure it may not have been the kindest thing to say to Blaine but I don't believe that he was trying to attack him. Even if you didn't like what he said you can still learn a lot from him and there is no need to take what he says personally.

I think that's the general consensus. If it isn't, it should be. I still find Nobby's comment about me being soft extremely humorous, whether intentioned or not.