Scott Jurek

This past week Scott Jurek did an interview in which he complained a little about the media attention given to Dean Karnazes. This was quite predictably followed by another flurry of Dean-bashing and Dean-worship on running forums across the web. It didn't seem to hit here. (Perhaps until now. :-)

This is remarkable...

Hardrock 100 champion ignores sprained ankle

Excerpt: "Taking more than half an hour off the course record of the Hardrock 100-mile endurance race is an impressive achievement. Doing it with a sprained ankle borders on superhuman.

Rewiring my brain to lose the obsession with miles has had two mega-boosts this week, first with news of how Spartathlon winner Scott Jurek trains, and second with an inside take on what the 2:10 Kenyans like Ben Maiyo and "Baba" Kiogora are doing.

The "quality versus quantity" debate is drawing some passionate and well-informed comments here and elsewhere on this site. As a result of my research, I've already stopped doing "easy" morning runs, "recovery runs" and anything else that smacks of long, slow distance work.

Duncan Larkin of EliteRunning.com has a fantastic interview with ultra-runner Scott Jurek, Spartathlon champion and former winner of Badwater and the Western States.

Read it here.