Ive been running a lot more then I've done in the past this summer, staying healthy of course, I've been used to averaging 40-50 this past season and Ive worked up to 60-70 in the summer. I had a time trial today and was planning on running under 9:35 for 2 miles on part of our home xc course but I ran 10:10. My track 3k PR is 8:34 so I thought I would hit 9:35 but I was off by some margin. Is this because of high mileage? when will i start feeling good again/feeling benefit?
1. Beginning of the season. You probably haven't had much speedwork so your high gears aren't working too well rn
2. XC courses are naturally slower than on a track
3. It's a time trial, you're not really being pushed by anyone other than your team so you didn't need to go hard
make sure your not pushing yourself to hard on your easy runs, i ran better off of 25 mpw than i did off of 60 because i always pushed to hard on the easy days
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runninghigh wrote:
Ive been running a lot more then I've done in the past this summer, staying healthy of course, I've been used to averaging 40-50 this past season and Ive worked up to 60-70 in the summer. I had a time trial today and was planning on running under 9:35 for 2 miles on part of our home xc course but I ran 10:10. My track 3k PR is 8:34 so I thought I would hit 9:35 but I was off by some margin. Is this because of high mileage? when will i start feeling good again/feeling benefit?
It`s the result of more mileage and not have been used to fast paces during that period. Try to stay at an average of 50-60 miles per week and do one maxVO2 -pace interval f.ex 20 x 400m and one cruise LT -pace long interval like 6-8 x 1600m . Will make you quite fast reach your PR:s and beyond again.
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runninghigh wrote:
My track 3k PR is 8:34 so I thought I would hit 9:35 but I was off by some margin. Is this because of high mileage? when will i start feeling good again/feeling benefit?
I've found that it generally takes 3-6 months of higher mileage until you feel as if you can run as "fast" as your pre-high mileage fitness.
Having said that though, I've also found that when running high mileage that you need to take a 1-2 week taper for pretty much every distance to PR.
What kind of miles are you logging? That's the only real way to answer your question.
M- Easy (7-8min pace)
T- Fartlek or tempo
W- Easy (7-8min pace)
T- Hill repeats (long one week, short next week)
F- Easy (7-8min pace)
S- Easy or threshold
S- Long (Pace brought down to low 6 last 4-5 miles)
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