is my highest ever--last summer. For me, the solid amateur, all distance wannabe, I think a lot of those miles were just junk. I think I can achieve superb racing (for me) and fitness with 50-90.
My baseline goal is just 10/day, but I run an easy 2 miler on the days BEFORE and AFTER a killer workout (eg a 12 miler with 6x1200 Daniels type intervals).
Since I'm nearing 40, this plan gives me good fitness, good racing, and has not caused injury.
Things are good.
My highest is 141.
Could those people in the 100s post again with the results of this mileage ie what times did this mileage enable you to run? I'm only doing 60-70mpw and running 32mins 10k 72mins half marathon, I would be interested to hear preformance jumps that come with the high mileage.
I ran 115 once last year, and probably edged over a hundred 8 to 10 times, which I'd only done twice before (the previous summer). This year I've only managed to get up to 83 so far, but I've been busier than usual, and had a foot injury that set me back through January/February.
I'll never run the kind of miles some of you folks have put up (150+), but hope to get a little higher again later this year, at least if I make a push for a fall marathon.
Highest 3 consecutive: 114, 116, 124 (ran a 2:26 6 weeks later)
Currently: 94, 108, 110, ? (hope to run trails qualifier)
Normal Disclaimer: Everyone is different. People's reaction to the mileage will be different then others.
Pavlovs Dog wrote:
Could those people in the 100s post again with the results of this mileage ie what times did this mileage enable you to run? I'm only doing 60-70mpw and running 32mins 10k 72mins half marathon, I would be interested to hear preformance jumps that come with the high mileage.
15:12
31:36
1:08
2:22
Highest was 155, then 151 and a couple of 150s. I've had several stretcjes of time, say 6-8 weeks when I was in the 140s.
30 miles to 110 miles in 9 months
16:30 to 14:46
100, three times. Each time the main runs ("singles") totaled 85 and extra easy runs ("doubles") totaled 15. Once right before XC season started my sophomore year in college, twice the next summer. Both times I started at about 60 and added 5 per week until I got there. That second season I averaged 88 per week from July to October.
What did it do for me? Well, I've always been a slow runner (4:56/10:23 in HS), but it made me, um, less slow. I was 29th out of 30 on a middle-of-the-road D-I XC team as a college freshman, and as a junior I got as high as 11th.
Since I got old and fat my best was 78, 76 of it in singles, in early February of this year. Most of my weeks were above 70. What did it do for me? Made me ready to run a pretty good ultra. Unfortunately, I was getting ready for a marathon. I'm enough slower now that those 76 took considerably longer than the 85 did when I was 20, and it had a completely different effect. I guess you live and learn.