If you feel fine, no, don't drop the mileage now. For some reason people are scared to let girls run.
If you feel fine, no, don't drop the mileage now. For some reason people are scared to let girls run.
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If you feel fine, no, don't drop the mileage now. For some reason people are scared to let girls run.
He's probably right. You need to experiment, and before trying lower mileage you should see if you even need too. If after racing a bit your legs start to feel unresponsive or missing a "gear" then its time to start looking at volume vs intensity during the season. Alot of kids run fast off of treating cross country season like a training block (keeping mileage up and just replace workouts with races when they come up)
I think alot of this has to do with most highschool/college kids do not have a large aerobic base built up and working on this pays off more then tapering or lowering mileage 2 times a year.