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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3054061, member: 405"] I think the biggest difference in training runners today versus when I was an athlete 40 years ago (egad!) is the focus on core strength, diet and weight training. Back in the day, we would run 100 miles per week, even more in the summer, and then by midseason, taper down to "only" about 60 miles/week, and begin mixing in speed work (repeat quarters) to sharpen toward peak performance at the end of the season. Nowadays, runners barely run 40 miles a week, but the intensity is much greater, plus there is all the strength training, mental training and dietary management. I wonder if the training is that much better under the new methods, though, because when I read the section-leading times in the newspaper, most of the time we ran faster times back in the 1970s when I was an athlete, at least for the distance races. [/QUOTE]