Pretend you have to come up with a weekly schedule for a 800-mile runner. It has to be ~140 miles per week. Pretend the runner can't race any further than about a mile without one of his legs giving out. But this runner likes to run a ton of miles.
How would you schedule his days/weeks? How about base training? and racing season?
PS: The racing season can be down around 100 miles per week.
See a doctor, Ian.
YOUR HEAD WOULD EXPLODE
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Pretend you have to come up with a weekly schedule for a 800-mile runner.
I have never heard of this 800 mile race. Seems like it would take more than 140 mile weeks to train for it.
Mon-Sat: am run of 6-8 miles easy
Afternoon workouts
Mon: 3 mile warm-up, 40 x 100 w 100 jog, 3 mile c-d
Tue: Easy 10-12 miles
Wed: 3 mile warm-up, 6 x 800 w 400 jog, 1 mile jog, 4 x 200 w 200 jog, 3 mile cool-down
Thu: Easy 10-12 miles
Fri: 3 mile warm-up, 4 mile Tempo run, 1 mile jog, 3 x 300 w 300 jog, 3 mile cool-down
Sat: 10-12 miles easy
Sun: 15-20 miles easy
I can see you now.
Ian,
Please explain to us how you expect your hamstring to magically heal without taking time off? If memory serves me correct, you've been pounding out slow 100+ mile weeks for a while on an injured hamstring. How in the world is it supposed to heal if it is not properly rehabilitated?
I really admire your toughness and love for running, but do yourself a favor and build for the future by getting healthy NOW!
Do all of the miles on the track. In quarters. Everyday do 70x400 meters @ 62-64 second pace with a short warm up and cooldown. This way you will get super used to running fast and your legs won't give out. And even if one of your legs does give out and you smash your face on the track and grind your teeth into the cold, hard, synthetic rubber only 100 meters away from a blazing 4:25 mile pr, you will still be able to tell everyone how tough you were for continuing to run too much on an injury.
I did take 2 weeks off at one point. Nothing changed. It hurt more when I started back. I've been doing weights everyday trying to strengthen the areas around it for a good bit of time now.
This is what I (believe) is wrong with me.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5394964_sciatica-hamstring-pain.html
It doens't say anything about running in that link but you can google around a little a figure it out. I talked to a runner that had the same problem (trials marathon qualifier with 4 mins to spare). He had to get surgery to get it fixed. But he said thats because he waited too long. He gave me some tips on exercises I can do to try to get it under control. So I started those. (that was like 2-3 days ago)
I know I should still get an MRI or whatever. But it's hard convincing people that I actually have this problem, and it's not just my legs "getting tired or rigging up naturally."
I'd take a whole month off right now, if I thought it would help in any way.
Monday: Am 5 miles easy PM 15 miles
Tuesday Am 10miles easy Pm 3/ 8 mile tempo/3
Wednesday 15 miles hard, hilly
Thursday AM 5 miles easy, PM 15 miles
Friday: Am 10 miles easy PM (8x1k, 6x800, 5xmile) with 6 up/down
Saturday Am 5 miles Pm 15 miles easy
Sunday 20 miler hard hilly
At the time the OTQ time was 2:22, so Jenkins was technically under by more like 7 minutes. Do you see how silly it is to make these half-assed attempts at being anonymous when you keep dropping really obvious hints about who you are, who the runner you talked to is, etc?
And there's a big, vast difference between taking time off from running entirely, and embarking on some silly experiment like 140 mile week mid-distance training. You want to get healthy? Don't do so much that your body can't recover. You ever think that the gains from the weight lifting might never set in because your legs are always trying to bounce back from your stupid training schemes?
When you're barely hanging on to being able to run fast at all, it's not the time to try some crazy experiment.