jaretj wrote:
I agree that people have not read up on Phil Maffetone. His method is sound but people take it out of context. As I remember, Mark Allen was running 5:xx min/miles and slowed down to 6:xx min/miles for his easy stuff.
I was a huge Maff follower in the late 80's and was always happy with the steady improvements. Could have been better? Sure probably, but it definitely kept me from overdoing it injury wise where I had been banged up too much. REgarding his easy stuff it was actually an 8:15 pace he had to slow to keep his HR at Maff's limit for him. At the end of a few months of his HR limit he had brought that down to his old race pace at the same HR cap. There was little to info on Maff at the time b/c we had no innerwebs, but luckily my cross country coach had heard of him and that is what brought me to tri partly. I think so many people read a quick blurb on Maff and say 'no speed work.' He never once said that and actually says once the plateau is reached it's time for more speed work.