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Thanks, the strength running article made sense and had a few good arguments. I've lost weight throughout this year by improving my diet, reducuing sugar and upping protein. I don't run long distances (5-10k only at the moment) but was looking at the fat as fuel aspect for riding to see if I could increase endurance more than anything.
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He just seems completely dismissive of any other kind of training or its benefits and only focuses on aerobic training.
this article I just read http://strengthrunning.com/2015/02/maffetone-method-and-base-training/ sums up a lot of my own concerns about his approach (and the other guys book)
that said I have noticed a general improvement in my well being since doing the 2 week test (day 11/14 today) but that is largely down to me having a very poor diet before this.
my takeaway (pun unintended) from it is I should look at drastically reducing my carb intake especially from crappy junk food and restructure my diet in a way that I get enough carbs in my regular diet to train at my easy paces but without going ott and then making sure I eat enough carbs to fuel before/replenish after a hard session but not in the old way where I ate all the carbs and then ate even more after a hard session because carbs = running.
I think now I'll stick with a high fat & protein diet and look to add in small servings of carbs from natural sources (limiting sugars still almost completely) to meals when I start marathon training mid dec and see how I cope with the runs. until then I'll keep doing the low-intensity stuff as the best thing for me at the moment is to drop as much baggage as possible before the runs get longer.
in terms of weight I was a shade over 17st when I started (not running over the spring/summer piled on over a stone & a half with my previous 'runners diet') but i had already lost a few lbs from calorie counting in a couple of weeks before the 2w test so it wasn't just the first week drop you start dieting. plus I'm still eating 2000+ calories a day whereas i'd aim for 1600 on calorie counting.
as for going over the HR limit, i've not tried it. but I ran up 2 sets of escalators yesterday in moorgate station and felt a little lightheaded at the top.