What is considered "junk mileage"?

I would define junk miles as the miles that you do that the haterz don't.

Mileage is king.

"Miles make the champions"

-Arthur Lydiard

Junk mileage is, by definition, mileage completed while high on heroin.

Runs under 60% HR max.

Junk miles are those where you stop to by narcotics.

heroine of novel wrote:

Junk miles are those where you stop to by narcotics.

by should be buy; I'm sorry, feeling a little euphoric right now. Did I mention my time as a front man for three dog night?

Junk miles are any miles in excess of the minimum miles you need to run to reach your racing goals.

They have no purpose except to pad your milage totals for the week. If your goal is to run 70 miles a week and the last day of the week you are at 58, then your 12 mile jog is junk miles.

For me, mileage is only an indicator to help avoid injuries and not to accomplish any thing. Quality workouts should be your goal not mileage

old 800 guy wrote:

If your goal is to run 70 miles a week and the last day of the week you are at 58, then your 12 mile jog is junk miles.

What's wrong with an easy 12 on Sunday morning? Oh, wait, you're an 800 guy...

I have to agree that the notion of junk miles is largely bogus concept, popularized by football-background coaches who don't see any purpose in easy runs.

That said, when you have built your mileage to the maximum level you can benefit from,(meaning absorb and adequately recover from before the next workout) during a given training cycle, anything extra you try to sneak in will be counterproductive, and in that sense, junk.

That maximum training load will gradually increase from one training cycle to the next.

Training you do when you shouldn't, like the hobbling five-milers my old roommate used to do on a torn hamstring so he could extend his sacred unbroken string of days with at least five miles, definitely qualified as junk miles.

If what doesn't destroy you makes you strong, what no longer makes you stronger starts destroying you.

Or, you should run as much as you can, and not more.

michael t. smith wrote:

If what doesn't destroy you makes you strong, what no longer makes you stronger starts destroying you.

This pisses me off when people talk about over-training and junk miles, just a bunch of overly analytical idiots if you ask me.

Let's look at the best runners in the world. They do 3 a days. They don't complain about over-training and junk miles and they're the best in the world. I'm going to run as much as I possibly can without getting injured or sucking in my workouts.

I think a common problem that people face and mis-title is a lack of sleep or a crappy diet. People who stay up all night playing COD and eating potato chips and who run 90+ miles a week get injured or suck and then everyone calls it over-training and now the rest of Americans who take care of their bodies have to suck as well for their mistakes.

its not about how fast you run, its about how far you run

usain bolt does 500 mpw

junk wrote:

I don't double to get more miles in. I do those little shakeout runs of 2-4 miles because I really feel like they make my legs feel better for my other run after school

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2-4? Who the hell runs 2 miles?

Unless you are warming up or cooling down from a race or long workout, 2 miles does nothing.

This.

Pissed wrote:

This pisses me off when people talk about over-training and junk miles, just a bunch of overly analytical idiots if you ask me.

Let's look at the best runners in the world. They do 3 a days. They don't complain about over-training and junk miles and they're the best in the world. I'm going to run as much as I possibly can without getting injured or sucking in my workouts.

I think a common problem that people face and mis-title is a lack of sleep or a crappy diet. People who stay up all night playing COD and eating potato chips and who run 90+ miles a week get injured or suck and then everyone calls it over-training and now the rest of Americans who take care of their bodies have to suck as well for their mistakes.

There is no such thing as "junk miles".

What was it Lydiard said? "Miles make Champions".

In his ferrari :-).

RRRR wrote:

There is no such thing as "junk miles".

What was it Lydiard said? "Miles make Champions".

Ok so how many have you won?