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Originally Posted by Archaea
There are different theories for racers and elite runners when compared to weekend warriors.
Roger Bannister broke the four minute barrier while attending med school, but he made every single workout an interval workout. If there were one way to make me hate running, it would be to make me run every single workout as intervals.
But for us weekenders, we need proper rest.
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Agreed. I didn't mean to suggest that some people on the team didn't benefit from high interval volume. But I do not think I did. Even in High school I was fairly muscular for a middle distance runner (mostly the 800). I think the kind of volume we did was hard on a bigger runner like me. I would lose weight throughout the season (for example about 185 to about 175 my junior year) but I also got slower. At the time it just got me frustrated. But looking back its hard to imagine that it wasn't overtraining.