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Not so. Very ordinary runner.

At my best I was a 2.45 capable, that harboured ambitions of breaking the magic 2.37. Never got close.
I ramped up miles for a season and just got slower. I had more DNFs that year, than anytime before or after, All my best times were off a 5 day 50-60 mile programme.
No junk miles at all. All but the very long were faster than marathon. Two days off saw improvement, the quality sessions became higher quality. Also, tapering I found it was better to actually increase quality but substantially drop volume. So the 9 rep session tapered to 5 but faster etc.

I very much suspect not! Especially if you were doing 90-100 mile weeks, you obviously had more ability than I'll ever have.

One of our older guys, in his 60's, was from the Ron Hill, Dave Bedford era.... 100 mile weeks, every week... Had a marathon best of somewhere between 2:15-2:20....

There's a club legend that he ran something like 2:15 one weekend, and 2:21 the next weekend... Not sure if true, but an absolute beast nonetheless!