Training time machine

RayCun

spotted this in the Gruadian

On the 16th of January 1982, a fellow Durham City Harrier and very good friend of mine ran the Orange Bowl Marathon in Miami in 2 hours 14 minutes and 45 seconds. In 2012, that would have been good enough for fourth in the British rankings...
Roll forward to the present day and the ever-declining standard of distance running in the UK, especially on the men’s side, has been discussed at great length...
For the next few months, I’ll be referring to my coach’s training diaries for 1981 and 1982, and writing about the experience of doing the simple things right and trying to replicate the kind of training that was done in his day.

http://acceptableintheighties.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/4/

blockic

9,000 miles over 2 years with wife, kids and a full-time job! Some going!

RayCun

everyone is probably following the blog anyway, but today's post had interesting stats

I got a mate from work to pick a year at random between 1975 and 1985 in order to test my theory about the decline in standards across the distance events. He went for 1977. Below are the times of the fifth, tenth and twentieth ranked runners over 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon.

5,000m:
2012: 5th 13.22 , 10th 13.51 , 20th 14.02.
1977: 5th 13.25 , 10th 13.39 , 20th 13.49.

10,000m:
2012: 5th 28.51 , 10th 29.40 , 20th 30.12.
1977: 5th 27.55 , 10th 28.31 , 20th 28.59.

Marathon:
2012: 5th 2.16.40 , 10th 2.19.22 , 20th 2.22.29.
1977: 5th 2.16.02 . 10th 2.17.16 , 20th 2.19.10.

pconn062

Those 2 hard 4 mile runs in the same day look savage, I wonder how often these guys in the 80's ended up injured?! Great read all the same.

RayCun

he's running London

wonder will he post up his training?