Re: Conditioning for 100 milers

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

> To give you an extreme example, the race time that made Johnny Weismuller
an
> Olympic champion is now being repeated, 20 times in the morning, and 20
times
> in the afternoon, by 15 year old girls in training--and they're being
beaten
> by others who are doing even more.
>
> Don't follow the past. Design your own future.


I'm checking my mail from campus today and it just so happens that one of my
classmates is Janie Wagstaff, that has a drawerful of Olympic swimming gold
medals.  I just read this statement to her, and her reply was, "Yes, but
Johnny Weismuller also retired without the injuries we did."  And then ran
off a long list of the chronic and acute injuries she and her team mates
suffered while cleaning up all that gold in Barcelona.

Pretty close analogy to what's happening in elite equestrian sports as well.

susan g