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Tim:
Thanks for writing in with your very good questions. It is good to have this background and you do sound like someone with a good aerobic training history. It is just that a lot of it was in the higher-intensity zones. You will find even more speed and endurance once you put a better aerobic base under that top-end.
ME: There are many methods you can use to get a good ME training effect. I have tried many over the past 30+ years and all will work. I settled on the Gym ME program you are currently using after having very good results with it for mountain runners. If you are seeing good gains with it I suggest staying with it. It is a bit more load each workout than the original Verk ME with 2x/week. But our ME 1x/week allows more time for running training which I think is still important for its aerobic benefits. Verk’s guys were 800-1500m runners so lower aerobic running volume.
Lastly, congratulations on coming back to running from what could have been career-ending injuries. Keep going.
Scott