A lot of people suggest the lydiard form of training build up to 100 mpw while this is fine for the elite/faster runners who will be at the front of the field in most races. What about slower runners would you suggest that they run 100mpw
I certainy do agree with this form of training but wonder if 100 mpw per week would be too much, for runners like me that is 18 hours of running a week or would it be preferable to go on time
Change it to time, something like this:
Mon: 60 minutes
Tues: 90 minutes
Wednesday: 60 minutss
Thursday: 90 minutes
Friday: 60 minutes
Saturday: 120-180 minutes
Sunday: 90 minutes
Make sure you don't run the same pace everyday, I'd push the pace on the shorter days and keep the longer days easier.
With regard to your comment regarding "wonder if 100 mpw would be too much, for runners like me that is 18 hours of running a week," here's some math.
100 mpw, at 6 mins per mile is ten miles per hour, or ten hours running per week
100 mpw, at 7:30 mins per mile is 8 miles per hour, or 12 and a half hours per week
100 mpw, at 9:00 mins per mile, which would be a markedly slow pace to run distance, is 6.67 miles per hour, or 15 hours.
If you are truly running at a pace that would take you 18 hours per week to cover 100 miles, then that is a 10:48 per mile pace, which is far too slow to make sense to me, or to Lydiard.
Thanks Chuckster that makes a lot of sense and certainly do-able
ME - so you atr saying i am slow ;)
While that may be true an easy run would be around 10:30 pace (i just rounded it up) so i shouldn't bother with running big mileage then as i am slow
apologies for typo
atr = are
Chuckster wrote:
Change it to time, something like this:
Mon: 60 minutes
Tues: 90 minutes
Wednesday: 60 minutss
Thursday: 90 minutes
Friday: 60 minutes
Saturday: 120-180 minutes
Sunday: 90 minutes
Make sure you don't run the same pace everyday, I'd push the pace on the shorter days and keep the longer days easier.
I'm not trying to hate but 120-180minutes? thats a broad range and three hours is a long f***ing long run. even if you're doing a marathon that is too long.
With the time based system, you are essentially getting a similar training stimulus that a faster runner would get running for that amount of time.
Running 18 hours per week would be ridiculous, forget about 100mpw and just try to run 9-10 hours per week.
I use the exact schedule that Chuckster posted and it's in one of the lydiard/nobby pdfs floating around.
walk breaks
thats exactly what i was thinking its ok to say run more but how much is too much
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