Do you folks take easy weeks as part of your normal training? In Daniels' marathon plans, he advocates every third week cutting back to 70% of your peak mileage.
But when I tell serious runners that last week I ran 100 miles and this week I'm only running 70 they give me funny looks. Does it make sense to cut back to 70% every third week?
It's probably a pretty good idea as it lets your body heal so all the miles from previous weeks can consolidate in your legs. But I guess it's a personal thing, some people run high mileage every week, some don't like tapering, etc.
I personally like taking a down week every once in a while as I think it helps me avoid injuries. I'm going to work a two up/ one down, or 3 up/ one down schedule into my spring marathon training to see how it works for me.
Of course, about once every month.
I'm on an easy week right now. I do three high-mileage weeks followed by an easy one. Right now my high-mileage weeks are in the 90s, and my easy week is in the 50s.
I don't drop the intensity, just the volume. If I'm craving the easy week, I stay with my same mileage. If I feel like I don't really need the easy week, I take it anyway, but bump up the mileage during the next cycle. And when possible, I try to run a race at the end of the easy week. It's worked great for me so far.
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I am currently easy like Sunday morning.
I'd say 85% would be better and your body would still heal.
same here, 3-4 high mileage weeks with gradual mileage increase, then lower mileage week (which is about 60-65%) with a race at the end, so the easy week becomes a taper week. if that race goes well i increase the mileage a bit next cycle, if it doesn't then i'll repeat the last cycle since i figure my body hasn't really got used to the previous increase yet.
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