well when the kids get to college, after doing too much mileage for their own good they'll probably get a career threatening injury.
well when the kids get to college, after doing too much mileage for their own good they'll probably get a career threatening injury.
Hopefully, they will be better than Gruber and Myers. Boy, those guys blew last week.
hotnyoung wrote:
well when the kids get to college, after doing too much mileage for their own good they'll probably get a career threatening injury.
What's "too much"? Just about every HS mid/distance runner in the USA should be able to leave high school with atleast 10,000 miles.
I have heard that by the time American's reach either high school or some age (19 I think)...I don't remember which, but we are at least 3000 miles behind the Kenyans by then...
High mileage is not a problem. There is no such thing as burnout. It is just a mental thing. And as long as you aren't running all your mileage extremely hard, and you are running on soft surfaces for the most part, the risk for injury isn't that great.
well, I went from mid 30's to low 40's on one week and a week later i got shin splints.(i've had for 3 to 4 months). I only have to last another one and then I can take a break and up my mileage for cross
Some are running too many miles and some aren't.
how fast are you running you're mileage in relation to your PRs?
actually, i admit to doing the mileage a little faster than I should have. I sometimes hammered the last 2miles of my training run in around 11:00.
my pr's are as follows:
5k:16:39(flat course)
1600 indoor: 4:53
800 indoor:2:17
Americans want to blame current hard work for so many things that many years of prior laziness actually caused. (Wow, I sure do bash my fellow citizens a lot.) The body cannot be pounded into shape, but must be whittled daily. High schoolers train too fast over distances that are too short. Under this system, the body is not made to respond to a prolonged stimulus and adapt to become more efficient. The average high school male should run 100 mile weeks without straining before serious training is attempted. Although reports differ, I believe that Geb ran 6-7 miles to and from school five days a week, always barefoot. Then he started training.
I personally felt that my best pre-season training was always very very slow 6-12 mile runs at completely aerobic (sometimes laughable) paces. My teammates would eat up fast 5 milers and would beat me in workouts all early season but come June in the 3200 I'd be sub10 and no one in my year would be w/in 50 seconds of me (although an underclassman was closer and they got closer to me in the mile).
If running is truly a lifetime sport super fast anything early is misguided.
Train for a race longer than you intend to run. Routinely race multiple races a meet shorter than your desired race (racing the 1600, 800, and 400 for a 3200m runner). Never any need to do speedwork.
Keep in mind -- Haile Gebrselassie run's most of his mileage at 6min pace.
Weldon Johnson (28flat 10k) runs most of his at 7min pace. Slow it down. Keep most of your mileage at ~150s/mi slower than mile race pace and you'll feel much better.
Too much mileage???? The records books have been rewritten because of higher mileage in high school.
You're bumping a thread from 2004.
But damn, is it nice to look back and remember how terrible American running used to be, and see how far it's come.
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