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Yesterday 5 x 200m on road; walk back recovery. Sunny day.
Medium-fast pace. Breathing/recovery good - no Covid.
Directly after 2nd rep a lady said to me (from 10feet away) "I& #39;ve seen you here before, you run so fast! You& #39;re impressive, are you training for something?".
Medium-fast pace. Breathing/recovery good - no Covid.
Directly after 2nd rep a lady said to me (from 10feet away) "I& #39;ve seen you here before, you run so fast! You& #39;re impressive, are you training for something?".
I replied that my training days were over; just doing it to keep fit.
After the 4the rep, a man walking past me (pushing his young son on a bike) said, "you& #39;re running fast!"
Whilst all this is nice, they say this because they have no concept of running..
After the 4the rep, a man walking past me (pushing his young son on a bike) said, "you& #39;re running fast!"
Whilst all this is nice, they say this because they have no concept of running..
..I am only one month fron 59, I no longer run fast, I wish I could!
At 50yrs I was ~20 in the world for my age with 12.1sec 100m, nowhere near what I believed I could run at that age. A torn hamstring at 46 put paid to fast acceleration; intermittent..
At 50yrs I was ~20 in the world for my age with 12.1sec 100m, nowhere near what I believed I could run at that age. A torn hamstring at 46 put paid to fast acceleration; intermittent..
achilles flare-ups limited proper training. However, I expect the vast majority of older atheltes would have their own tales of woe, so even if I had been faster at 50, so wd they, meaning my rankings wd have been similar, everyone shifted up.
As you age the reduction in performance doesn& #39;t necessarily come from the general deterioration of the organism, but most often a specific injury or condition which limits your training or function - ok, it& #39;s circular in that your recovery and repair systems are better when..
you& #39;re younger. A ham tear at 19 is less likely to be chronic than one at 40 (but problems may arise later in life from an earlier injury which had & #39;seemingly& #39; gone away). I estimated that a hamstring tear took 2/3 tenths of my 100m.
Achilles flare ups, reduced my ability to train hard. You can keep retain top performances up for a while as they are easier to maintain than to develop, but eventually they degrade if you don& #39;t work the tails, work to your limits.
No real athlete cares about the feedback....
No real athlete cares about the feedback....
