I am reading a book about Zatopek atm (Hi, flanker and paji15

), and it discusses how he revolutionised training for long distance running:
Zatopek was developing his own form of this [training] in isolation.
Over in Britain, from the Achilles club at Oxford to their privileged upper class peers at Cambridge, men like Roger Bannister and Chris Chataway held a snobbish disdain for training too hard. Rest was considered far more important and certainly more gentlemanly. ...
Zatopek, though, felt he needed speed more than endurance and so would run harder and faster for as long as possible. Merely jogging interminably was not helping. Inevitably his methods were frowned upon and even mocked, driving him increasingly to run alone.
It resonated with me first time I read that part, but today I somehow can relate to this even more.
Eteri group, including Alina, are changing female figure skating as we speak, and get a lot of 'mockery' along the way.
On related, but more positive note

- I run more on a treadmill now, given that it gets dark early, and today I discovered that I can watch youtube on the screen in front of me...
Never 40 min of a treadmill running passed that quickly before - I watched Carmengitova several times (from Helsinki, Nebelhorn and Rostelecom), Rostelecom's POTO and Ex. That was great! Alina's energy was emanating from the screen and keep up my pace was easier than ever!