All I can say on this thread is if anyone dares to say that Lydiard is wrong about anything goes right down in my book.
Just to set the record straight regarding Lydiard and milage.
1 He never recomended easy milage for anything other than "Shake out" sessions usualy easy runs on a morning ,He said these runs "sent you body a message".
Remember we are talking relative hear ,easy morning runs to athelets he trained were around 6.30 mmp pace.
2 His whole training philosophy was to buil up to 100 mpw of miles relative to the pace each athelete was capable of running. i.e an athelet may start at 8.00 mmp and end up running 7 mmp. For his top runners this was 6.00 mmp down to 5.30 and faster.
On another topic ,our friend CL ,a well read and educated man but he does seem to get the fundamentals wrong.
He has mentioned two coaches ,Lydiard and Cerruty recently and in both cases been wrong.
I do not have a PHD in aything other than knowing what I am talking about regarding the theories of the great coaches .