I ran ~35 miles the past two weeks. I want to build to 50, however I am injury prone. Highest I have done is ~42.
It’s my outdoor season right now, and I do a threshold every week, a long run every week, mile pace on the track every other week, and 3k pace on the track every other week.
Would it be safe to build to 50, or even at all, with races and that training schedule? Or is mileage increase usually left to base building?
Building to 50 won't hurt you, as long as you're racing once a week.
You mean once as opposed to more times per week?
Very unsafe. Near guaranteed death
That is very dangerous. I implore you to reconsider.
I knew I was going to get those answers
Serious ones please? I’m asking if it’s risky (injury) to build mileage while in season and not base, since it’s usually done in base?
I’d say it’s pretty safe, given that I make my athletes do big jumps during the season. My kid made a bug Jump in mileage this XC season going from 65 to 95 and he’s only a sophomore. Having additional athletes on my team is also good so I can see what would work or not for my own kid
What type of injuries? But yes its better to build mileage first before increasing intensity aka adding workouts. But i have done both at the same time but i make the workouts much shorter to start and basically doing two threshold type workouts and a long run a week. I do this in my old age cause I get bored but also have done it with athletes coming back from injury still to workout with the team and not feel like they are all alone in training.
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I knew I was going to get those answers
Serious ones please? I’m asking if it’s risky (injury) to build mileage while in season and not base, since it’s usually done in base?
I have been one of the biggest advocates for volume training who posts here since the beginning and I would NOT advise you to do this. I think it's a mistake to add more than one stressor to your running at a time. You're likely doing more sorts of hard runs in your training now that you do in off seasons and races add more hard runs. That's plenty. Adding volume will be one more stress. You don't need that stress now. I think it's also a mistake to let go of too much endurance work. You want to keep some in but not to the point where you're at the top of your volume range. The mileage of Lydiard's guys always dropped when they got to the interval and racing phases but they usually had a very easy second run on most days and kept something of a long weekend run in the mix but the overall totals were not nearly as high as they were in the off season.