I'm currently running 70 mpw and have been doing so for some time. Training for a marathon, with 2 semi-long runs per week and one long run (~20mi) in the weekend. I double about 5 days/week.
I'm wondering if i could jump up to 100mpw directly if i take some walking breaks, ie in first 2 weeks run 400m/walk100m, next 2 weeks run 900m/walk100m, from there on run the whole thing, or if it would be better to just slowly raise the mileage without walking.
Thanks.
In all honesty, work on getting your doubles down to 1 or 2x a week at 70 miles.
All of those 4 and 5 mile runs you are doing are great and all, but you would get more benefit from your training if you started running 1x10miler instead of 2x5 every day.
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In all honesty, work on getting your doubles down to 1 or 2x a week at 70 miles.
All of those 4 and 5 mile runs you are doing are great and all, but you would get more benefit from your training if you started running 1x10miler instead of 2x5 every day.
Debatable. Of course, ideally you want to be doing 10 AND 5, not 5 and 5 OR just 10. More doubles is better than less.
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