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Few interesting stats from our top distance runners

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  • 02-02-2017 12:52pm
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    Myles Splitz
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    Dunno if its of any interest to anyone but I thought it gives a bit of insight in to what alot of our top distance runners are doing (sample size 109 - 78 men and 31 women)

    -Results More than half the respondents (53.2%) run less than 60 miles per week and 11% run more than 80 miles per week.
    -Eighty-eight per cent of athletes include resistance training:
    - Weight training (36.5% complete two sessions per week),
    -plyometric training (35.4% complete one session per week),
    -core training (47.9% complete two sessions per week)
    - hill training (60.4% complete one session per week) were the most common resistance training methods employed

    http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/4/324.3.abstract?sid=320c5340-cc4e-46a9-831b-d2379b148ae7


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    RayCun
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    "distance" is everyone from 800m runners to marathon, would be interesting to see the breakdown


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    Annie get your Run
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    And also the duplication of the %'s, I'd assume that some runners are doing more than just one of the resistance/weight/plyometric/core options? Very interesting to see over 50% of them have less than 60 mile weeks too.


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    Myles Splitz
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    Annie get your Run wrote: »
    And also the duplication of the %'s, I'd assume that some runners are doing more than just one of the resistance/weight/plyometric/core options? Very interesting to see over 50% of them have less than 60 mile weeks too.

    As it contains 800/1500m runners that is probably a bit skewed (although the fact that only 11% run over 80 miles a week would indicate that yes a lot doing less mileage than counter parts in other countries and compared to previous generations)


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