Tim Noakes, "Lore of Running" Author page

[honeypig]

http://www.discovery.co.za/email_za/...ral/noakes.pdf

I'm surprised no one posted this already--interesting to see that someone as authoritative as Noakes in the running world has done such an about-face.

[runningout]

Thanks for the great article. This might cause some Noakes followers to check their paradigms.
I'm just reading a book by Philip Maffetone (who seems quite Primal to me): "The big book of Endurance training and racing"(2010). Noakes has written respective afterwords for the book.

[honeypig]

Runningout, I just picked up Phil Maffetone's book myself! It makes so much sense to me to switch to his plan of low HR training, and in fact I have been doing so for about 6 weeks now. I'd be interested to hear what you think, and if you have actually implemented any of his methods so far.

[runningout]

It's an excellent book, so much more than typical (running) book, offering balanced approach for sports and life.
I think I first just read it through (same time with primal blueprint..) to get the spirit and later go better on details, but I already try to follow the "MAF" (Max aerobic function) heart rates, which I kind of followed earlier, but I needed some explanation. I also adopted better warm-up and cool-down stages (after I learned why they are beneficial). E.g. allowing the circulation to return to inner organs after training before loading in all the food..
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Is it this MDA or Maffetone, but I'm moving from being better (wannabe)runner to being healthier person..

[dml]

Another book in the same vein as Maffetone's books is "Slow Burn" by Stu Mittleman, an accomplished ultra-runner.

[honeypig]

Another book in the same vein as Maffetone's books is "Slow Burn" by Stu Mittleman, an accomplished ultra-runner.

I checked this book out of the library years ago, read it and thought, wtf, this is craziness. Checked it out again a month or two ago and felt quite different....

[runningout]

Another book in the same vein as Maffetone's books is "Slow Burn" by Stu Mittleman, an accomplished ultra-runner.

Done that, in search of more answers, Slow Burn led me to Maffetone...then MDA...does it get any better ?

[honeypig]

One part of the puzzle after another...and then trying this and that to see what fits for your individual situation. It takes time, but I have high hopes that this will put me on the right track.

I lost about 50 lbs using conventional means over a couple of years, ran my first marathon in 4:05:32 and for the following 4 years, have been struggling w/constant weight gain and very little improvement in race times. Even tho I worked harder and harder each training cycle and kept on using the same methods I had used in the past to lose weight, I just got NO RESULTS! As a 52-year-old woman w/thyroid problems, I have other hormonal things to work with too, but finally I have some light at the end of the tunnel. I had almost begun to dislike running, as it seemed I was always working so hard, but now I have had a few runs that actually felt GOOD again, quite encouraging, AND I am not constantly hungry as I was before.

This just seems to be heading the right direction.