I take it back about Epic being mostly mental and not that physical.
It still was a very mental experience, but I am feeling what it did to my body on this rainy Texas morning. I finally got a good night sleep last night. I just haven't been sleeping well since I got back from NZ. Kinda glad I am getting rained out right now.
Well this week I have taken down the volume a bit and added mild spurts of intensity.
Everything was fine until I went to the track on Thurs. I had a great session but have now been so sore for two days. I was having this talk with my dad on the phone yesterday. I was telling him how my track session went. How surprisingly fast it was considering I have been doing long slow stuff. He was telling me how when he was running his life best, he was doing massive volume, and when done right he was getting faster on the track. He used to do alot of steady state stuff. Stuff like 4x5 mile intervals trying to hold even splits. 18x1 mile repeats. Just crazy stuff. Now he didn't do this over night, he bascially was building the physiology needed to complete these sessions over years of volume. I know some will tend to disagree, but without that volume(when I say volume I mean high volume on an individual basis, what that individual can absorb. Not just going out there and smacking it when you aren't ready.), and laying down the physiological infrastructure, how could be possibly be fast in an ultradistance event?
I truly believe this is why last year I used to fade around 10 mile mark of the run in a half Ironman. It wasn't because of improper pacing, poor nutrition, etc. It was because I could not hold that steady state pace for an extented period of time.
Now tieing this babble together. I think that I really got the benefit of epic and made some physiological changes. Two years ago I wouldn't have, epic would have just shelled me. One thing that I noticed from the guys at the front at Epic. They had the ability to hold a very high intensity for very long periods of time. I had the ability to do work for a long period of time.
Yes, I think for the average age grouper you can get away with learning how to race, training to race, learning technique, and have a very successful outcome. To get it to another level requires consistently doing work over an extented period of time. Well anyway, take it for what it is worth. Just my opinion. Time to get on the trainer for a couple hours.
Cheers,
RT
Well this week I have taken down the volume a bit and added mild spurts of intensity.
Everything was fine until I went to the track on Thurs. I had a great session but have now been so sore for two days. I was having this talk with my dad on the phone yesterday. I was telling him how my track session went. How surprisingly fast it was considering I have been doing long slow stuff. He was telling me how when he was running his life best, he was doing massive volume, and when done right he was getting faster on the track. He used to do alot of steady state stuff. Stuff like 4x5 mile intervals trying to hold even splits. 18x1 mile repeats. Just crazy stuff. Now he didn't do this over night, he bascially was building the physiology needed to complete these sessions over years of volume. I know some will tend to disagree, but without that volume(when I say volume I mean high volume on an individual basis, what that individual can absorb. Not just going out there and smacking it when you aren't ready.), and laying down the physiological infrastructure, how could be possibly be fast in an ultradistance event?
I truly believe this is why last year I used to fade around 10 mile mark of the run in a half Ironman. It wasn't because of improper pacing, poor nutrition, etc. It was because I could not hold that steady state pace for an extented period of time.
Now tieing this babble together. I think that I really got the benefit of epic and made some physiological changes. Two years ago I wouldn't have, epic would have just shelled me. One thing that I noticed from the guys at the front at Epic. They had the ability to hold a very high intensity for very long periods of time. I had the ability to do work for a long period of time.
Yes, I think for the average age grouper you can get away with learning how to race, training to race, learning technique, and have a very successful outcome. To get it to another level requires consistently doing work over an extented period of time. Well anyway, take it for what it is worth. Just my opinion. Time to get on the trainer for a couple hours.
Cheers,
RT
posted by Konatri at 7:32 AM
2 Comments:
Hey Ron!
Not physical my ass! ;) How're you pulling up now post-Epic? Getting pumped for Arizona? Half of me is jealous of the guys doing IMNZ this weekend, and then the other half... 5 weeks til IMOz is little enough time! (or a lot of time to screw it all up depending on how you look at things!)
Toby
Ron -
Loved the description of the exhaustion before road rash. All sounds pretty familiar. After doing six epic camps I can say "I know what you mean".
Way to fight off the "van".
KP
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