I have run about 25,000 miles in my life. That's since I was 14 years old and over 13 years of running (the other 5 years or so were years I didn't run... spread over 2 segments of 3 years and 2 years). That amounts to an avg mpw of about 35 (sometimes ramdom weeks as high as 70, or even a month at 70, but usually in the 40s and 50s in college and 20s in hs).
Now I started running 70-80 per week and want to get up around 90-100 next year.
With a new training philosophy of CONSISTENT high mileage, is it possible to PR in the 3k and 5k at 32, 33, 34 years old? I am curious if anyone, in their early 30s, began to train substantially MORE then they did in their teens and 20s, and saw big improvements.
You see lots of stories of collegiates or recent grads bumping their mileage and seeing massive improvement, but I have yet to read on these boards of someone doing that from their 20s to their 30s.