Extreme training [ For inspiration: a true viking breaks a record]

Any other tales of extreme training and hours? This sounds truly nuts.

Terje Mathisen wrote:

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If it is the same person, then he used to train 45-50 hours/week for a
few years, with no real coach to look after him, naturally he broke down
after 2-3 years or so.

The guy I met did stuff like 70 (yes!) 400 m intervals as the last half
of the second (out of two or three) training sessions per day.

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Any other tales of extreme training and hours? This sounds truly nuts.

Another norwegian I read about, was skiing up to 12000 km each season, over
70 km each day if my memory serves me well.


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Terje Henriksen
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Terje Henriksen wrote:


Any other tales of extreme training and hours? This sounds truly nuts.

Another norwegian I read about, was skiing up to 12000 km each season, over
70 km each day if my memory serves me well.

Possibly this is Tom Stensaker? Here is an old article about
him:

"http://www.geocities.com/maraton_info/emirror/tom_em.htm" (in English)
"http://www.geocities.com/maraton_info/intervju/tom.htm" (in Norwegian)

I couldn't find much recent info about him, but there are a few pictures
of Tom from May 2003 of Oslo Ski Asscociations site:

"http://www.skiforeningen.no/imgshow.cgi?nr=2154"


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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Terje Henriksen wrote:


Any other tales of extreme training and hours? This sounds truly nuts.

Another norwegian I read about, was skiing up to 12000 km each season,
over
70 km each day if my memory serves me well.

Possibly this is Tom Stensaker?

Yes.


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Terje Henriksen
Kirkenes