Yeah, I read about her doing 80 mpw, and thought about the fact that I ran 50 mpw and also ran Houston and ran a hell of a lot slower than D'Amato and felt pretty lame. Like maybe at some point you should just accept you have no talent and give up!
I always want to believe this type of thing is real, but it does seem suspicious.
I realize that Sara Hall is a very different case as she is someone who has showed incredible talent since high school. But I also find her late career success potentially suspicious as well given her age.
Her past training on high mileage seemed almost Japanese, like how they do ekiden race training. Lots of volume in the past (up to this point). Molly S. hits 120-130 mpw for instance. Lydiard would be proud! (Assuming no doping--but I wonder too sometimes). And we all know about Shelbo.
I think talent is also a product of staying healthy and running to your best (even if it's a 3:30, but you can stay healthy and run that 3:30 for years and age into a male master's BQ or even the softer 41-44 and up standards. That's a different talent than say, going 2:45 and then getting hurt and never coming back to that time).
You seriously average out someone's running over an entire year to judge their training? That's like saying I made $1,000 per day last year when I got a $365,000 bonus on December 31. Your argument flies in the face of the concepts of both lifetime fitness and periodization. By your own data, she AVERAGED 80 miles per week for two years, struggled with injury for weeks/months, then averaged a lot MORE than 50 miles per week (i.e., back to 80+ miles per week) before setting the AR. This is just flat-out false, so I don't see how anyone can take the rest of the argument seriously: "twelve-month-long diet of 8 miles a day" Still not good at math.
Yeah, I read about her doing 80 mpw, and thought about the fact that I ran 50 mpw and also ran Houston and ran a hell of a lot slower than D'Amato and felt pretty lame. Like maybe at some point you should just accept you have no talent and give up!
I always want to believe this type of thing is real, but it does seem suspicious.
I realize that Sara Hall is a very different case as she is someone who has showed incredible talent since high school. But I also find her late career success potentially suspicious as well given her age.
I got suspicious when she tagged her sponsor, Nike. Amazing effort, no doubt. But still suspicious as hell.
You have to be naive to think her AR was clean.
Her past training on high mileage seemed almost Japanese, like how they do ekiden race training. Lots of volume in the past (up to this point). Molly S. hits 120-130 mpw for instance. Lydiard would be proud! (Assuming no doping--but I wonder too sometimes). And we all know about Shelbo.
I think talent is also a product of staying healthy and running to your best (even if it's a 3:30, but you can stay healthy and run that 3:30 for years and age into a male master's BQ or even the softer 41-44 and up standards. That's a different talent than say, going 2:45 and then getting hurt and never coming back to that time).
You seriously average out someone's running over an entire year to judge their training? That's like saying I made $1,000 per day last year when I got a $365,000 bonus on December 31. Your argument flies in the face of the concepts of both lifetime fitness and periodization. By your own data, she AVERAGED 80 miles per week for two years, struggled with injury for weeks/months, then averaged a lot MORE than 50 miles per week (i.e., back to 80+ miles per week) before setting the AR. This is just flat-out false, so I don't see how anyone can take the rest of the argument seriously: "twelve-month-long diet of 8 miles a day" Still not good at math.