Training hard quote

I just found this part below in an article I was reading on the internet about training. Ok, so I really was briefly reading over the different subject titles to see if I wanted to read the article and came across something interesting, but that's close enough to reading the article right? Anyways... here it is:


RED-LINING
Top marathoner's talk about "red-lining," a term borrowed from auto racers. The red line is the mark on the tachometer of a high performance automobile where if you consistently rev your engine higher, it will disintegrate. Whoom! $125,000 worth of junk. Red-lining in running is pushing your body in training right to the point of self-destruction, achieving maximum efficiency, training the necessary miles to run P.R.s, but not so much that injury, or staleness, occurs. The red line for one of Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's fitness joggers, interested only in good health, is 15 weekly miles. Dr. Cooper, the author of the best-selling Aerobics and subsequent books on the subject, suggests that if you run further than 15 miles a week, you're doing it for reasons other than fitness.
Someone whose goals extend beyond fitness to performance might red-line--after a gradual build-up--at 30 miles. Or 45. Or 60. Most often, these limits are physiological in nature. There's a Catch-22 in red-lining. You have to train hard to be able to train hard. But if you train too hard, you no longer will be able to train hard. Confused? It's simply that too many miles too soon result in injuries: strained tendons and ligaments, stress fractures, chronically dead legs, what commercial advertisers might label "tired blood."
- http://www.ultrunr.com/buildupmiles.html

My favorite part, and the reason I am posting this, is towards the end when the author talks about the Catch-22 in red-lining. I'm not sure why I like it so much but I started laughing when I read the line "You have to train hard to be able to train hard. But if you train too hard, you no longer will be able to train hard".

Oh well, now back to the rest of the article.

All Glory to God and thanksgiving for the gift of running.