I quit tracking my mileage because its a number i dont want to stress over

Why are you bringing such unprovoked douchebaggery to an otherwise constructive discussion? GFY

you could just make up your own numbers and call them "RICH MILES"

you know...like the famous "Jerry Miles"

mpw is just one piece of data in a larger data field on a planet full of data.

I have to travel a lot for work, and about 18 months ago my company opened an office in Denver that I have to work at about twice a month for a few days.

So now any given week, I can find myself running at sea level, at altitude, and on a treadmill in a hotel gym. I ditched 10 mile easy runs a long time ago and now it's 75 minutes. I do try to do my workouts at home when I can though

There's no reason to track mileage unless you competing in High School, College, Pro or semi-wanna-be pro. You might want to know how far/fast you ran for fun.

minutes work

mileage numbers are annoying

though its cool to hit 100 / week especially if things are going good.

70 minutes a day and you're prepared for anything basically, as a standard base

if you do your 70 minutes over hills and at 5 minutes / mile with surges,

you are talking world class.

at slow pace your 70 minutes will be 70 miles / week and at pace its close to 90

whatever you do, back off after a crappy day

though i enjoyed the long run, it's unnecessary for middle distance

back in the day the lydiard bunch kind of raced it partially, which made is not exactly LSd

Why track mileage anyway?

I assume you are a distance runner right? If so mileage is just a product of times x pace.

just track your weekly hours run or weekly average pace if you still wish to track any or if tracking something is too stressful just do you training.

i have no idea my weekly mileage and don’t care because number of miles run per week is irrelevant, average pace however…

If you read Nick Symmonds's training log from the year of his best Olympics, he tracks mileage totals in the winter and spring (aiming for 70 mpw iirc), and then deliberately stops logging the total because he specifically does not want to focus on that in the summer.

Makes sense to me!

Interesting. Can I also assume you aren't using a GPS of any sort ?

I've been at this a very long time and have to admit that there are mornings I'm tempted to not run but persuade myself to because skipping it would hurt my mileage totals (week/month/year/lifetime).

On the other hand, it's been years since I've tracked how fast I run, because THAT would be too depressing.

Ed Whitlock was just running for fun. That's why he ran by minutes instead of miles. /s

prior, i mentioned that tracking minutes is a great way to go.

that said, i was very proud of my first 100 mile week, where i managed a lot of quality,

at another point 100 miles / week was deadful tired.

those two 100 miles were so unrelated as to make the number completely useless.

one way to do it is to blast and cruise 60 to 70 minutes,

like walker dixon scott, did essentially daily, with breaks here in there.

that said, walker did come from 90 miles of quality / week, background with long runs, so this kind of volume was in the wheelhouse, with, underline quality.

later on, Lydiard himself approved of this kind of work, as an advance on his methods, or an acceptable interpretation.

taking a break, from a hard schedule season, i came back with a couple of months of easy and solid 70 minutes running, which were relaxed and mentally easy.

results were very good. which is to say it's kind of LSD Lydiard was talking about.

that said, over the years LSD, the body adapts to LSD, and you get slow before your time.

hence strides, 100 m repeats, small weights, that don't exhause, and instruct the body to recruit the fast twitch, underline that.

in fact, literally everybody after coming back from the race season, take a break and come back with the easy solid 70 minutes a day, with easy striding,

I've always wanted to but I do like strava kudos from my mates, even though most of them have gone off strava themselves.

Being a slave to mileage is no fun, so I've shifted to time. However while I do track it, I no longer do the stupid shiit on easy runs where if I'm 2 min short I will run past my house etc to get the time in. Rounding mileage and time is pointless. It's the effort and consistency.

tracking for workouts is more important and does give you feedback if you're way off pace, but i hate it too - lots of performance anxiety, even as a well trained runner. what if i don't run 6:30 for that 2k? what if its more like 7min? am i done? that's why at least training for time is better for me than distance. Run 6:30 or 7 min hard rather than nailing paces.

Miles look good