Running same amount of miles everyday ?

Makeithappenornot · 2022-02-04T07:57:09-05:00

I'm a hobby jogger. I was wondering if for example goal is to run 40+ miles/week, would running 6 miles every day (42 miles/week) be good. And then if I want to run about 50miles/week, something like running 7 miles/day. But always keeping the same amount of miles everyday. Because sometimes I have trouble to motivate myself to run, so I think to just have a simple plan like just run 6 miles a day would create some sort of routine. Of course, the pace sometimes would change to make some sort of either tempo run, fartlek run, easy run etc. But keeping always the same amount of miles everyday..[b] is it detrimental or is it sub-optimal but still good enough to make good progress ?[/b]

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4 years ago 02/07/2022 3:13am EST

re: George Ilie

George Ilie wrote:
If you do speed in some days, then is okay. This would be the equivalent of distance variation.
But I'd say to take a day off once a week, to rest your mind a bit.

Probably not optimal, but you can still achieve a lot with it. Somehow also a nice routine, just look for a nice loop in the nature. Basically I don't do anything else and I like it. However, I would not run every day. One day intervals, one day tempo and one day progression style (start slow, finish faster by feel), all the other days easy. If you gradually make the intervals / tempos harder, it works.

4 years ago 02/07/2022 7:37am EST

re: Makeithappenornot

I think it would make more sense to run the same amount of time every day. Like, 1 hour. Super easy to plan this around all the other stuff you have to do. You know that when you're going to run, you'll be busy for about 60 minutes. You can have a crushing 50 minute track workout with relatively short warmup an cooldown, or a hard 20-minute tempo, or an easier tempo for the whole 60 minutes, or a straight easy run, or a 10x 1 on 1 off fartlek, whatever. The only thing you can't really fit into one hour is long run, quite a few HS 5K runners run more that 60 min for their long run and an adult hobbyjogger is likely aimed at nothing shorter than 5K. But nobody is going to kill you if you run 90 or even 120 minutes every other Saturday.

4 years ago 02/07/2022 7:51am EST

re: Starno

Starno wrote:
It is not optimal, but if it allows you to train more regularly, you will see progress.

Weeks 3-6 of a training block I'm logging two 90+ min long runs per week and the rest are easy 45min'ers. I think this is a significantly more efficient in building the aerobic base when compared to daily 60min runs.

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