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dude, zum Thema "Intervalle, TDL" und meiner HM-Vorbereitung :

Zitat von dude

Walker

Tim Noakes, in "Lore Of Running" :

To Run Faster, Walk More ?

Runners, I have observed, usually have a very poor opinion of walkers and walking.
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I never had any difficulty understanding the runner's aversion to walking. The runner trains precisely so that he need never again walk. For the runner to walk is to admit failure and defeat; a giving-in to the baser weakness; a failed reformation. Thus, perhaps subconsciously, we runners ascribe to walkers all those negative characteristics we wish to avoid. We distance ourselves from the walkers lest we be contaminated by their perceived failure. Perhaps it is time for a broader view.
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In his classic, The Serious Runners Handbook, Tom Osler (1978), one of the first Americans to run ultramarathons, describes how he learned to complete an 80-km training run, irrespectiv of how fit he was. The secret, he discovered, was to walk frequently. He proposed that the ideal combination was to run for 25 minutes and then walk for 5 minutes. But Osler confined his advice to ultramarathoners and did not extrapolate the advantages he discovered to other running distances.
More recently, another legendary American runner and writer, Jeff Galloway, author of another classic, Galloway's Book on Running (1984), refined this advice. His proposal is that, when racing marathons, you should only run for 2:30 before walking for 0:30. His observation is that the muscular exhaustion of long-distance running develops much less rapidly when we walk frequently. Perhaps it is because frequent walks delay the rate at which stretch-shortening fatigue develops. As a result, a much greater distance can be covered before severe exhaustion sets in.
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Australian ultradistance runner Alan Peacock has described to me his own experiences of alternating walking and running during competition. By mixing running with walking right from the start, he was able to complete 207 km in a 24-hour race without developing leg stiffness after the race. When he applied the same principle to his long Sunday training runs, in which he runs for 15 minutes and walks for 2 minutes, he is able to recover more quickly, within 24 hours, even after long runs of 4 hours. By Tuesday, he is sufficiently recovered to do more intensive interval-type training. Peacock's point is that walking in training is still considered unacceptable by the fastest runners. Yet, he suggests that everybody could benefit by including regular walking in their long training runs since the same distance would be covered, yet recovery would be enhanced. As a result, there would be less need to recover during the rest of the week and more intensive speed training session could be undertaken.
Perhaps this is an idea whose time has come. Osler's innovation needs to be practiced mor widely.