High Mileage on roads?

i'm 19 and i've been running between 70-80 mpw all summer with about 95% of my runs on pavement/asphalt. I just make sure that i stretch really well, and make sure that your stride is more of a glide and not a bound so you don't pound your legs extremely hard. Of course i've been running on pavement my whole life so maybe i've just adapted to it, who knows...

Glad to see i aint the only one. Any others out their surely their are more?

No -- there aren't. We all got out of the ghetto when we got the chance.

90% roads.

98% on the roads even worse sometimes on sidewalk concrete. No injuries yet but sore knees sometimes. I just make sure to run nice and easy, I think my form and stride have adapted as well just like the above poster.

i ussually try to get on the strip of grass between the road and the sidewalk. it's usually a bit of a pion in the ass (sloped one way, has holes in it, is uneven, etc) but i figure it's a lot easier on the joints, bones and tendons and i'm racing on grass in the fall anyway so i might as well train on it.

100-120 miles a week, 99% roads. You'll get used to it. I used to be about 70/30.

Alan

I'm in suburbia and there's not many trails around.

I'm not one to usually drive somewhere to run either though.

I've run up to 178 miles in a week, 99 percent of it on roads. I've run long stretches in the 120 - 150 range, again almost all of it on roads. I wouldn't want it any other way. On roads your foot-plant is predictable and firm, no roots or rocks to trip over, and no holes to step in.

Anyone else think that quad strength seems to help? My knees don't seem to take as much of a pounding on the roads when my quads are in better shape, wondering if anyone noticed the same thing.