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September 13, 2005 3:54 PM, Anonymous said...

I regularly read your Blog online, as a runner myself I find your posts interesting, but your obsession with shoes a bit puzzling! Why do you need so many? Is it to match your eye shadow? I get my shoes direct from Asics and manage on a pair of DS trainers for most of my training and a pair of Asics duo from the Japan range for road races.

I've done 14.09 for 5k and 29.34 for 10k aswell as a 65.24 for a half, looking to run London in April and hopefully a sub 2.18 clocking. The thing I find strange about your schedule and this is just my opinion is the lack of endurance work?

You seem to get by on a diet of 40 mile weeks with lots of 200's and 400's thrown in. If you ever want to get to the limits of your potential you have to be running at the very least 80 mpw and with 2 quality sessions thrown, mile repeats x 5 or 8 x 1k or 4 x 2k at 10k race pace. The Sunday run should be 90 mins plus. When I was in my early twenties I probably averaged 60 mpw with one session and I could run about 31.30-32.00 but with dedicationa nd a sensible approach I ahve built up to 100+ per week with 2/3 sessions, I work full time and do not get a lot out of the sport, especially financially, I get kit sponsorship but that is all, I fit my training around 55 hour weeks. If you really want to make a go of your running you have to stop worrying about teh clour of your shoes aand start doing some proper training.

 

September 13, 2005 5:33 PM, White Stag said...

I'm glad you've taken the time to read my blog. I hope you enjoy it. I do find some of your comments a tad odd though, verging on the offensive really. If you're going to put comments about 'eye-liner' on my blog, or some other piss-taking remark, it'd better be in context, otherwise I'll happilly flame your anonymous arse!

If you'd have actually taken the time to read the posts, rather than just the headers, you'd realize that I'm logging the mileage on my shoes. It's mentioned a couple of times in my history when some shoe-troll puts on a comment. When I refer to the colour, it's to identify which pair I'm talking about, as I have several on the go at a time. Maybe I should name the differnt pairs of shoes (Hello Barry, the older NB 832's...)? Would that result in reducing your troll-istic comments?

Reference my mileage, clearly you can't count, as I'm not 'getting by' on 40 mpw as you put it. The majority of my weeks are 50+ with 3 quality sessions and that's in the Summer. My Winter I tend to do 60-70, with some weeks at 80. I'm keeping my build up progressive, as I've done the 80+ mile thing last year (check last August posts in the archive), and thanks to my biomechanics, I can't hold it for very long at the moment.

On the workout front- I only run 200's & 400's in the Summer, and not at my own behest. My coaches like me doing them, even though I'd rather be doing kilometres or tempo runs.

I'm glad your good enough to get kit sponsorship (which is more financial aid than I get, btw), and your times/level of dedication around a full time job/etc are wonderful. Perhaps you should put them on a blog? However, as I only took up the sport at the age of 20, I doubt I'll ever get into those ranks, hence I only run for one thing. Enjoyment. I dont have the genetic background or talent levels necessary to make it pro, so if I get pleasure out of worrying about the colour of my shoes (which I don't but it's to illustrate a point), then so be it.

I'm in a bad mood, hence the length and nature of my response. Please feel free not to come around again. I think the start & the end of your comment set the tone to be honest.

 

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