What's the advantages of slowly building up your mileage rather than bump it up a lot and then keep it at that mileage.
e.g. 40 miles to 70 miles in a week and to build up with a few more miles every week until you get to 70.
You will faster reach 70mpw and train more more at it. Is injury the only reason? or what in the butt.
I would like to know this one as well. Is it really injury only or something more? Would you get more out of your training by increasing it slower?
k
in the bum!!!
Only for injuries I think.
Also because if you suddenly and dramatically increase your total training stress, whether by increasing milage or increasing intensity, you're going to feel like shit and possibly end up overtrained.
Second the other answers, overtraining/injury.
Think about it for a second. If your body is able to adapt to taking x amount of strides over 40 miles and recover well, do you think it will be able to do the same taking x*1.5 or x*2 amount of strides for 70 miles over the same surfaces. Muscles, tendons, ligaments are all resilient and adaptive, but it's similar to going from no races to 2 - 3 races a week without any workouts behind you in training.
I think remember Gerry saying something about bumping it up once instead of gradually increasing your mileage.
If you run all easy can you get overtrained on only 70 miles really?
one year I ran 35-40 miles a week, tapered for the post season, ran 20 for like 4 weeks, took a week off after the season. Then I ran a build up of 25, 35, 70. I ran 70s all summer long after that, didnt get injured and improved a ton. That said I would not recommend it unless you run exclusively on dirt/grass as I was able to
k
Base training wrote:
in the bum!!!
You wrote something similar in another thread. Doesn´t HS kids have homework to do?
Remember the days wrote:
I think remember Gerry saying something about bumping it up once instead of gradually increasing your mileage.
If you run all easy can you get overtrained on only 70 miles really?
Maybe
more opinions please.