We can’t cross train in season
We can’t cross train in season
You don't need to run more then. You don't need to run faster either. You don't have to constantly feel like you are grinding to get fast. Focus on all of the little things and hone those really well while your mileage isn't super high yet. Get lots of consistent sleep, eat very well, do everything you can post-run for recovery, and make sure you string together a bunch of workouts. The key is consistency. Running faster to make up for doing lower mileage is a bad attitude to have, even though the logic might seem sound. Be patient and do everything else outside of the mileage/easy pace the best you can. If you can do all of that consistently with no problem, you will always improve as a runner and will find that future mileage increases only make that easier to do. Sooner or later you are bound for a breakthrough.
I think quotes are cheesy but I'll do one anyways. Only one I put on the training packet:
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
Jacob Riis
The stone is your running career (duh). Keep working at things methodically like I said and you will have the breakthrough you want.
Thanks FormerSub14!
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
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Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
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