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he showed that endurance training reduces blood levels of lactate,
even while cells continue to produce the same amount of lactate.
Mostly its your muscles, not your cardiovascular system, that determine how fast you can run. Forget all that VO2max, lactate threshold stuff. Focus on optimally training your muscles if you want to run faster / your best. How do you optimally train your muscles? Train at a wide variety of paces/distances/intensities (I recommend 6 distinct training paces), give yourself sufficient recovery between run workouts, add a bit of cross training / strength training, and eat a sensible diet.
Jim: That's quite interesting... I actually might have done the same with your old coach in terms of cutting back the mileage before the target race; thought I would be a bit more forgiving with the intensity... It is true, in a way, that what I do is pretty much 3 (or thereabouts) "point workouts" a week; a long run, a tempo and intervals (right now, steps). Except that I fill it up with 7~10 other workouts a week in a form of "jogging". I hadn't "trained" this much in years and I feel very fit (except for my Achilles pain!); I've improved my 5k time by a minute just this season alone. And now I got a new goal--to get your times by the time I get 60! ;o) Very impressive; good on ya!
Dave
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Jim, Very good information for me as I'm one of those guys running a marathon in two weeks off of my best mileage ever but still peaking at around 50 and even then for only a handful of weeks (I've had some inconsistent miles the last two weeks with a 10 mile race and a few extra days off after that with really sore legs) I do tend to run many of my miles close to or even below what I think may be MP so I think I have a large portion of my miles that might be characterized as "intensity". I think I'm reading that you recommend maintaining my miles and intensity for one more week with a slightly shorter long run 1 week out (maybe something like 13)?
Feeling the growl again
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This is the first quote I posted from the book: "As important as it is, the aerobic system is only one of two major physiological factors in the running performance equation. The neuromuscular system is the other major factor. Neuromuscular fitness, which manifests itself as stride power, stride efficiency, and fatigue resistance, affects performance as much as aerobic fitness does." The authors are saying that the aerobic system and the nueromuscular system are equally important in performance - which is quite different from traditional training wisdom which places little to no importance on the neuromuscular system as a key component in performance.
...Now you agree that the aerobic system and neuromusclular systam are equally important??