At what point does mileage get in the way of progressing to the next level?

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Mileage won't get in the way if you approach it safely enough. Your coach is a bozo.

60mpw is not "mileage". 100-120 is.

Simply put: Mileage becomes detrimental at the point where you can no longer recover enough to compensate from it. Different for everyone, and varies depending on hundreds of factors (sleep, nutrition, stress, etc...)

+1. When considering your recovery, you need to look at everything that can cause stress: not enough sleep, poor nutrition/hydration, timing of nutrition, flexibility/lack thereof, school/work schedule, family demands, etc. All of these factor into your recovery. Do not overlook them.

60 mpw at 7 min pace is running, not training. If you want to be in the best you can be, start doing doubles everyday (aside from your long run day and the occasional rest day) and work towards getting your mileage to the highest point you can handle. Mileage and doubles are the most under rated aspect of almost any runner struggling to improve.

Mileage gets in the way if you rigidly believe in it as a panacea, the solution for all your running problems. It's not. Mileage alone assures you of nothing. The very best US distance runner get there with 50 second 400m speed or better. Like Seb Coe said years ago, speed is inescapable. I've advised enough post-collegiate runners to know many college athletes will routinely increase mileage until injured or sick then begin the cycle again until graduation. Racing success is secondary to piling up numbers. This approach is not optimal. To succeed in distance running you need a combination of speed and stamina. 60 miles/week can work well because it allows a quality of work to be done. it also helps develop some sense of consistency. And if you run the same range of efforts all summer long -- and your training *is* actually useful, that easy running should become faster and faster. Why not assess your progression this summer by focusing more on what you can do, not how much you do? This is a sport where they hold a watch, not a sundial.

dsrunner has the day off wrote:

To succeed in distance running you need a combination of speed and stamina. 60 miles/week can work well because it allows a quality of work to be done. it also helps develop some sense of consistency. And if you run the same range of efforts all summer long -- and your training *is* actually useful, that easy running should become faster and faster. Why not assess your progression this summer by focusing more on what you can do, not how much you do? This is a sport where they hold a watch, not a sundial.

so you believe that your 400m speed has an affect on longer race distances?

speed and stamina, how to improve these?

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Not many US distance runners have 50 flat speed. That's probably necessary to be a successful 1500 guy, but no way for 5k and up

When you can't run at or faster than the pace you did with lower mileage.