As usual, nice consistency. :) Hope sleep finds you one of these days! I bet your body needs to get reacquainted!
From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 19:13:03
We were wondering if the recent delay in your blog updates had something to do with the baby being born :-)
Lack of sleep can really play havoc with your running at faster speeds. For me the trouble starts at anything faster than 5:45 pace. I have a working theory that once you go faster than that, it is not enough to be aerobically fit, or even muscularly fit. Neurological fitness starts to become a factor that exponentially increases in importance with the increases in speed. I have heard many world class runners put sleep at the top of the list of things that give them the ability to run as fast as they do. Rebuilding the muscles and the bones after a hard workout is one reason, but I think perhaps the most important one is that it takes such an extreme amount of neural drive to run for miles at sub-5:00 pace, that you absolutely have to have a perfectly tuned nervous system.
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