I tend to run high mileage almost everyday 8-10) miles
I tend to run high mileage almost everyday 8-10) miles
How old are you?
Hello,
8-10 is not high mileage unless you are a 4/8 sprinter or below. 60 miles per week for a good miler is very reasonable, even in high school. There are excellent collegiate 1500 folks that are +\- 10 miles of that range as well.
There are a handful of training approaches for that type of mileage that take speed development into account. Our team website has a metric ton of free training info and recommend books / websites to help you build your own plan.
Good luck,
Rob
runningislife3 wrote:
I tend to run high mileage almost everyday 8-10) miles
Nobody can say if you are overtraining or not. Are you overtired? Are you struggling to complete runs? Running 10 miles every day won't prevent you from running faster. Look up the thread on Nenow who ran 10 morning and night, 20 on Sunday and 27 low for 10000. He wasn't overtraining.
runningislife3 wrote:
I tend to run high mileage almost everyday 8-10) miles
Maybe you are under trained ?
Another giver of +1 wrote:
runningislife3 wrote:
I tend to run high mileage almost everyday 8-10) miles
Nobody can say if you are overtraining or not. Are you overtired? Are you struggling to complete runs? Running 10 miles every day won't prevent you from running faster. Look up the thread on Nenow who ran 10 morning and night, 20 on Sunday and 27 low for 10000. He wasn't overtraining.
very smart to compare an elite runner to an average one.
70miles a week can easily be overtraining depending on the level and experience of the person.
What is your background OP? When did you start running? at what rate did you increased mileage?
runningislife3 wrote:
I tend to run high mileage almost everyday 8-10) miles
The answer to the title of your thread is yes. But unless you are pretty new to running or at least to serious running 8 to 10 miles a day is far from being high mileage. Very few people these days run enough miles, and run them hard enough, to get overtrained which is not the same thing as feeling tired at times.
runningislife3 wrote:
I tend to run high mileage almost everyday 8-10) miles
Are you doing it really really slow like the training experts on this site think you need to be?
trollism wrote:
Are you doing it really really slow like the training experts on this site think you need to be?
Good advice!
Everyone has a "breaking point" but it is individualized.
Part of the definition of overtraining is a prolonged decrease in performance so if you are overtrained then yes you will not improve.
Also, the training is one side of the coin proper recovery is the other; sleep, eating, hydrating well can help. Doing those poorly even with a level of training you are able to do could lead to overtraining.
Luv2Run wrote:
Everyone has a "breaking point" but it is individualized.
For anyone without serious disability, that "breaking point" is well over 100 mpw.
If OP runs more, he will start feeling it easier.
I was an 800m runner in high school, 1:56.3 or, but I also played basketball and only trained for the 800m 4 months a year. My highest mileage week in high school was 8 miles. I know, that’s pathetic.
I walked onto a PAC-12 track team, started running cross country, and proceeded to have every running injury in the book. I am extremely thankful that I was allowed to walk on and I have a lot of good memories from the experience. However, I feel that on race days I was so drained from the practices that I could never really run a good race. I peaked out at 1:54 but I always thought I had under 1:50 in me. Who knows.
HRE > Rupp wrote:
Luv2Run wrote:
Everyone has a "breaking point" but it is individualized.
For anyone without serious disability, that "breaking point" is well over 100 mpw.
If OP runs more, he will start feeling it easier.
Bullcrap
Maybe not. I got faster, but I got injured too.
I warmed down with Frank Shorter after a race in Honolulu and I asked him whether all the great marathon runners from the 70's ran at least 140 mpw.
He said the only ones that didn't were the ones that couldn't.
Does a bear crap in the woods?
1:56 off 8 miles a week!! Wow!!crazy
HRE > Rupp wrote:
Luv2Run wrote:
Everyone has a "breaking point" but it is individualized.
For anyone without serious disability, that "breaking point" is well over 100 mpw.
If OP runs more, he will start feeling it easier.
wrong.
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