quote:<HR>Originally posted by tigger:
I have a niggle in the back of my neck saying that Nobby was somehow involved in the follow-up. Good job Nobby!<HR>
You have intelligent niggles. Nobby did get in touch with Dave Costill and asked for a clarification. I imagine Nobby will find this thread sooner or later, he's travelling now, and tell the story better than I can.
If I remember our (Nobby's and my) conversation correctly, Dr. Costill had said something along the lines of "A lot of people learned about Lydiard, assumed they needed to do 100 mile weeks when that was way too much for them and they ended up hurt or sick."
That's not an exact quote by any means, but it was along those lines. The point Dr. Costill was trying to make with his original quote was that many people misunderstood what they had to do in order to do "Lydiard training" and didn't fare well.
I'll add here that I would fall into that category. My first go at doing "Lydiard" was in about 1973 or 74. I was already doing the 100 mile weeks, but slowly. I read a quote from Arthur saying that once you'd worked up to 100 mile weeks you should run that distance faster each week. I took that to mean that if I'd run a 15 mile course in 1:50:00 last week then I needed to run at least 1:49 something this week. I did that for about three weeks and could hardly walk by the end. At that point I decided that Lydaird training would only work for someone a lot tougher and more talented than I was, so I went back to running my 100 mile weeks slowly and comfortably.
Of course as time passed I did get faster, much faster, without increased effort. It wasn't until I met Arthur in 1977 that I leanred that was exactly how the whole thing was supposed to work and that my original experience was not at all what he had in mind.
