This is the same at every club though!! Preseason is brutal, always has been (apart from a Mourinho one). Today the players that were dropping were those who haven't had the past week at Hotspur Way, so effectively this was their first session, so not really a surprise that they suffered, whilst not really a surprise that those who didn't drop have got a week's worth of training in their legs already.
Many a pre-season I've done with an amateur and semi-pro involved this type of running. Sessions are sometimes 3hrs long or doing double sessions (morning + evening).
I don't get what all the fuss is about.
Only one making a fuss here is you with the dissertation homie, I wasn't being serious...