Every Run is a Great Run!

If that's the biggest oops you do for the rest of your life, then I think you'll be OK! Good job hubby!

Hmm.. It's all relative proportion wise I think. There is a place for every element of training year round. Try telling that to Frank Shorter who pretty much did speedwork of some sort year round. Or Clohessy, Rob De Castella's coach.

I agree somewhat though, as you definitely don't want to be doing 1-2 Vo2 sessions per week and a 6 mile AT run 4-6 months out from season. :)

So if you don't do race specific training you can just keep getting better and better. So why do race specific training? Actually, why even train? There must be a good reason.

I think just reading this quote you could get the wrong impression about what Hudson is advocating. He's actually really big on maintaining a high mileage base year around and in doing a variety of workouts year around. He's of the opinion that as long as you take a couple weeks off or really easy 1 or 2 weeks a year then you'll be ok running lots of mileage.

What he's saying in this quote is to save the really hard, race-pace specific workouts until the last month before your peak race. Prior to that time some of his suggested workouts are still pretty intense, but they're at paces both slower and faster than race pace.