Hi Damien, thanks for your comments on my post, much appreciated. I agree with you regarding my training in early 2014, does not seem to be over training for a marathon, especially (as you also point out) the relatively slow pace it was done at. The point I was trying to make in my post, was that it was probably over training for me specifically. I’m in the process of generating another presentation for the end of this month, where I reveal some my latest body composition results since that time (almost 5 years) – showing, that I’ve remained leaner than when I was running and put on a bit of muscle again. This tells me (in my opinion) that my particular body type probably is not suited for long distance running and the high volume of training. So I think your hypothesis that some people may not be genetically suited for endurance running is correct.

There is one little thing I’d like to point out though. Since you have– or had– the ability to run a 42km marathon within 3 hours, the training table you show here (30 Jan. 2014– 8 Feb. 2014) is by no means “over-training”, especially if you take into account the pace you had for those runnings (around 6min/km), which is reasonably relaxing. I know people (some are ultra-runners) who run 15 km or so everyday at a faster pace, not to mention those professional marathoners or ultra runners, their trainings are way up above that level. So how could that amount of running lead to your muscle degradation? Just doesn’t make much sense to me. Could it be that some people are simply not fit for endurance-running, which is a genetic thing?

Cheers Leo, thanks for your kind words