What training advice has helped you improve your running

Stacking speed sessions. I don’t mean doing them on back to back days, but if you can alternate between easy & hard days consistently then you’ll very quickly get yourself in peak shape. Nothing groundbreaking I know, but you’ll make insanely faster progress than just sticking to say 2 quality sessions a week

More Specific to marathon training but running your weekly long run at 5-10% slower than target MP. Doing this rather than an easy long run catapulted me from a 2:34 marathon to a 2:17 in less than 18 months, and there’s still more juice to squeeze

Some of the advice from sirpoc and how consistency and repeatability of load can get you most of the way there for a hobby jogger. His book is the most relevant to most of us IMO and I wish I had trained much more controlled years ago when I wasn't as old and past my best. But even then, pound for pound im way better than my older self.

This for me to. I was training too hard, never being consistent. Boom and bust. The usual. This stuff has made me realise actually, there is a different approach for hobby joggers other than being obsessive over vo2 max.

After about 10 of just plain running I finally learned the benefits of doing track workouts.

Interesting.. I find 10 usually works for me but this does point out how training should be tailored to the individual

Every second counts

Simplistic approach would be: Run more and run more consistently

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Yes, I see

I'm a believer in volume but this got me thinking and just want to shoot the sh1t here re volume trumps intensity. I know the volume allows you to be able to handle the intensity but slow easy running is largely to keep you consistent and hitting workouts better.
For someone who can handle ie 100k weeks with a long run and 2 good sessions, would moving that up to 120k and cutting a workout to reduce the intensity to handle the volume really benefit more than keeping the intensity and sacrificing some volume?

I think the idea there would be yes long term, because moving up to 120k and cutting 1 workout, staying there for a bit to adapt and then add back in another session once you've adapted is the goal.

Of course there comes a point where you can't push the volume up anymore and with every person this point is different, you have to experiment to find out yourself.

I personally find that I have to SACK UP and run those miles at 7 minute pace drafting off the local high school girls to get my tempo runs in so I can ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATE little kids in a parkrun

Many people have good reasons not to run every day, but running should not be one of those reasons. Weekly rest days, down weeks, end of season breaks and days off for minor niggles and illness all have a huge effect on how much you can train. Recovery is important but by far the biggest factor in recovery is how hard each run is.

If the only way you can handle the sessions is by taking (planned or unplanned) time off every week/month/year, you should back off the intensity instead. Running every day is more important than smashing out impressive workouts.

I was a decent runner (25:45 for 5M) before I got my first coach (an OLY trials marathoner). He looked at my running log and told me to go away and run every day for 3 weeks and then come back. CONSISTENCY. The next thing he did was to begin slowly adding doubles. STRENGTH. But maybe the best thing he got me doing was to work my way up to where I ran very hard 3 times a week (track, tempo, pick-ups). Basically, every other run was a hard-ish run at a minimum. My mileage never got above 65MPW but my INTENSITY was off the charts.