Leyland 10k this morning. 36.30 ish. That's a whopping 2 mins outside a pb, but was happy enough with the time.
Got Seb Coe's book for Christmas. Interesting reading about his dad as a coach. He dispensed with conventional wisdom, and looked at things afresh from a scientific point of view. Coe thought he had a big advantage with not having a running background and, therefore, not influenced by dogma and old wives tales.
Sounds like all the middle distance runners were doing lots of miles in them days (which does seem a bit weird, but sounds like other runners were blindly into Lydiard) and Peter Coe concentrated on getting Seb strong and fast. Loads of hills and loads of 400 and 800m reps, and not much recovery in between.
Anyway, so far in the book at least, it doesn't go into a lot of detail on coaching methods, but you get the impression that whilst Peter Coe went to great lengths to understand the science behind it all, the training Seb did may have been pretty basic eg, 400 and 800 reps, hills. Often. (To almost quote TR).
Still, it must not be forgotten that despite Seb talking his dad up, had Ovett snatched the 1500m in 76, then how would history judge Peter now?
