Well I finally have pushed my weekly training distances back up into the 50 mile range. I am quite happy with my training and I hope to be nearer to 80-100 miles a week by August. I am going to do several competitive trail runs this summer including 3 races of the Frontrunners Gutbuster series. I am also going to do a marathon. I am deciding between the Park City in August on Oakley's birthday or the Victoria in October. I have to make a decision soon which one I am going to do. October would definately get me a better time since I will have more time to train. I would like to run something in Utah while we are down there though.
I just finished reading a book by Ernst van Aaken Called "Van Aaken Method". I am a huge proponent of long slow distance and started working towards the "Lydiard Method" way of training earlier this Spring. Van Aaken was experimenting with long slow distance before Lydiard, as early as the 40's. Though both methods are quite similar there are some slight differences. I experimented with both over the last bit and have merged the methods into a plan that works well for me, with my plan resembling Lydiard's method the closest. These endurance centered methods are the extreme opposite of the tempo or interval training methods that experienced popularity in the middle of the last Century, the premise of which is to run many anaerobic intervals (using more oxygen than you can breath causing lactic acid to form) without full recovery between intervals. What is Long Slow Distance? In a nutshell the theory involves running every day and running as much mileage...
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