Do Elite Runners intentionally limit their Mileage ?

It's a mix of things. You want to run a good amount for the event, if you're training for 1500/3k you don't need to be running 120 miles a week and instead want less volume with higher intensity in the workouts. For the longer events it's about doing as much as you can without getting injured and still having energy to hit the workouts at the quality you need to be at. Someone training for 10k might get injured if they run 120 miles a week or more, and they'd be worn down and not have as good of track sessions. A marathoner would hit 120 or more at times, but the intensity would be a bit lower and if they get too high the risk of injury is there. So it's not really limiting the mileage, it's finding the volume where you can be injury-free and be able to have the energy to hit the workouts at the desired intensity.

Who does 40 k per day? That would be 240k or 150miles per week with one rest day.

What most people don't seem to understand that the mileage comes automatically with more speed.

A lot of runners think that if they would just run 120 miles per week as the elite marathoners do, they get that fast. Quite the opposite. They might actually get slower.

If you look at the actually running training times of elite runners , they are not train that much more than others do, time wise.

But they can just crank out a lot more miles in that easy 1.5 hour run than any of us does. And that's the reason why they are getting to that mileage.

You're conflating higher mileage with higher injury rate. To me good training is the right combination of endurance and intensity, thus avoiding injury.

I'm not elite, but I know I have a mileage cap that won't run pass.

Internetsherlock wrote:

For example an Elite who does 40 km 6 days a week .

Why wont he do 60km instead?

Is everything calculated for max performance or they can't take more training than that?

Am very curious . Please share your thoughts

Elites run a lot more than 60 km a week bud.

No question there wrote:

Internetsherlock wrote:

For example an Elite who does 40 km 6 days a week .

Why wont he do 60km instead?

Is everything calculated for max performance or they can't take more training than that?

Am very curious . Please share your thoughts

Elites run a lot more than 60 km a week bud.

You´re not very bright, are you?

Forest Gump again wrote:

Who does 40 k per day? That would be 240k or 150miles per week with one rest day.

What most people don't seem to understand that the mileage comes automatically with more speed.

A lot of runners think that if they would just run 120 miles per week as the elite marathoners do, they get that fast. Quite the opposite. They might actually get slower.

If you look at the actually running training times of elite runners , they are not train that much more than others do, time wise.

But they can just crank out a lot more miles in that easy 1.5 hour run than any of us does. And that's the reason why they are getting to that mileage.

holy words

Kipchoge runs 11-12 hours a week.