Is it too much mileage for a teenager who is a very new runner to immediately start running 25 miles per week? This mileage includes running 6 days per week with 3 easy runs, 2 workouts, and 1 long run.
Is it too much mileage for a teenager who is a very new runner to immediately start running 25 miles per week? This mileage includes running 6 days per week with 3 easy runs, 2 workouts, and 1 long run.
No
Then how come I got a stress fracture doing it a year ago during summer XC training?
So it's 6 days/25 mpw that got you injured instead of 5 days/20 mpw now?
Let me guess, you lied for privacy reasons again?
If anything it is too little for someone running 6 days per week, with 2 workouts and one long run.
So what mileage should a new HS runner start with?
You should do 0 miles/week and try another sport
David the untalented wrote:
You should do 0 miles/week and try another sport
Stop joking
david45 wrote:
David the untalented wrote:
You should do 0 miles/week and try another sport
Stop joking
No, really, he's not!
Not kidding wrote:
david45 wrote:
Stop joking
No, really, he's not!
Really, he’s really not! David, go ahead and gtfo of here.
david45 wrote:
So what mileage should a new HS runner start with?
It's okay to start with 25 mpw. After 3-4 weeks, increase that to 30 mpw. After 3-4 of that, go up to 35 mpw. If you add 5 mpw every four weeks, you can get up to 90 mpw after one year.
HRE > Rupp wrote:
david45 wrote:
So what mileage should a new HS runner start with?
It's okay to start with 25 mpw. After 3-4 weeks, increase that to 30 mpw. After 3-4 of that, go up to 35 mpw. If you add 5 mpw every four weeks, you can get up to 90 mpw after one year.
But that is not how it works in the real world. If what you said is true, then why don't you see HS runners run 90 MPW after a year of training?
david45 wrote:
HRE > Rupp wrote:
It's okay to start with 25 mpw. After 3-4 weeks, increase that to 30 mpw. After 3-4 of that, go up to 35 mpw. If you add 5 mpw every four weeks, you can get up to 90 mpw after one year.
But that is not how it works in the real world. If what you said is true, then why don't you see HS runners run 90 MPW after a year of training?
I think they are exaggerating to show it's worthwhile spending a year to progress your volume to a good level. In the real world a HS runner could go from 10 mpw to 50 mpw in a year if they wanted. Often they don't want to and are happy repeating the same 25/30 miles throughout HS.
25 mpw is too little for 6 sessions. I run 40-50 mpw in 4 sessions.
david45 wrote:
Then how come I got a stress fracture doing it a year ago during summer XC training?
Everyone is different. You may (unfortunately) have biomechanical vulnerabilities, maybe your nutritional status isn't very good, maybe you raced every single workout at near 100% effort leading to you being overtrained and exhausted, we don't know.
When I was about 16, my athletics training centred quite heavily around interval training. I didn't get injured, but maybe 80% of the girls I knew did. The problem wasn't really the interval training, it was that every workout was raced and timed, competitive, etc.
If I was taking a brand new teenage runner, I'd look at their sports history. It's very different giving someone 25mpw who was on the football (soccer) team, swam, tennis player, played sports almost every day their life than someone who say was into music as a main interest and has been sedentary for the first 16 years of their life.
I don't think, with injuries, it's sometimes about the mileage per se, it's about how you do the mileage.
david45 wrote:
Is it too much mileage for a teenager who is a very new runner to immediately start running 25 miles per week? This mileage includes running 6 days per week with 3 easy runs, 2 workouts, and 1 long run.
Just GTFO of LRC. It wasn’t funny to start and it most certainly isn’t now. If by some chance you aren’t a troll , GTFO anyway and take up tiddlywinks instead of running
I have a (much) younger brother. He's 15 and plays Football (soccer) twice a week, but during the pandemic he's been joining me for my 2nd run most days. (I run most of my mileage and all my harder stuff in the mornings) We run 4-5 miles usually 5 times per week. The pace has ranged from 7:40 to 8:20. The faster end of that range is more like a tempo run for him. He's back playing football once a week now too, so I guess that puts him over the 25MPW mark.
So my brother is:
- A teenager
- A 'very new' runner
- Running 25MPW+
- It's not 'too much' for him.
- Includes one or two 'hard' sessions
The only thing missing is a 'long' run admittedly, but that ticks all other boxes.
Reddit will tell you you should run 7 miles a week.
SlowFox wrote:
Reddit will tell you you should run 7 miles a week.
How do you know?
cuz your a fucken b*tch! stop posting
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