Low mileage training..is it just Batty?

The only reason people advocate low milage is that they are pussies who don't really want to train. Barring the people who take unnecessary risks and don't listen to their bodies when they need to back off, if you run more you will get faster. Bernard Lagat is not just running 50 miles a week and I know for a fact that many Kenyan distance runners are 100+.

giant johnson wrote:

The only reason people advocate low milage is that they are pussies who don't really want to train. Barring the people who take unnecessary risks and don't listen to their bodies when they need to back off, if you run more you will get faster. Bernard Lagat is not just running 50 miles a week and I know for a fact that many Kenyan distance runners are 100+.

I think this is ridiculous. Low mileage training takes serious balls (if done correctly). Not everybody works well with low mileage (just like not everybody works well with high mileage). It takes someone who can handle intense days with few recovery days of maybe 8 miles in between. Few people have the discipline to NOT run longer (and ridiculously slowly) that is necessary for low mileage training. Also these low milers have to be able to focus on the race to really see results. This is not easy when your workouts are nearly races themselves.

Miles Batty once beat Jason Rexing in trainers while taking a dump in compression socks.

Is it possible that to run a fast mile requires different mileage than does a 5k, 10k or marathon?

100 mpw for a 800 / miler is not ideal.

50-60 mpw for an Olympic marathoner is not ideal.

Doc holiday wrote:

Miles Batty once beat Jason Rexing in trainers while taking a dump in compression socks.

oh yeah? well I used the same lower mileage scheme as miles batty, but it lost most of its effectiveness in races after I went to a running store and took a shit in a pair of compression socks.

NCR-76 wrote:

Is it possible that to run a fast mile requires different mileage than does a 5k, 10k or marathon?

100 mpw for a 800 / miler is not ideal.

50-60 mpw for an Olympic marathoner is not ideal.

isn't the whole point of high mileage training based off Lydiard's? So 100 mpw would be exactly what an 800 runner would run.

Can anyone offer some of the scientific findings behind either low or high mileage training? All I'm seeing here are a lot of unproven opinions.

mr. skeptical wrote:

Can anyone offer some of the scientific findings behind either low or high mileage training? All I'm seeing here are a lot of unproven opinions.

Miles Batty invented scientific findings and he says that low mileage is better.

BYU runner wrote:

I know for a fact that Miles Batty trains at only 30 mile weeks. Low mileage works, you just have to run your ass off.

You've got almost 100 replies now. 10/10 sir

oh yeah? well I used the same lower mileage scheme as miles batty, but it lost most of its effectiveness in races after I went to a running store and took a shit in a pair of compression socks

I try.

oh yeah? well I used the same lower mileage scheme as miles batty, but it lost most of its effectiveness in races after I went to a running store and took a shit in a pair of compression socks.

giant johnson wrote:

The only reason people advocate low milage is that they are pussies who don't really want to train. Barring the people who take unnecessary risks and don't listen to their bodies when they need to back off, if you run more you will get faster. Bernard Lagat is not just running 50 miles a week and I know for a fact that many Kenyan distance runners are 100+.

I've got a feeling that a lot of kenyans are well over 150. They don't have much in the way of tv, internet, movies for entertainment. Ever seen someone from kenya post on letsrun? How about your favorite swahili authors? actors? etc...

oh yeah? well I used the same lower mileage scheme as miles batty, but it lost most of its effectiveness in races after I went to a running store and took a shit in a pair of compression socks.

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