I consistently ran about 50 miles per week during the winter. The post-season races that I need to be running my fastest times for are about 6-7 weeks away. I am mostly interested in running my fastest time for these meets, which means I am willing to run slower times in the multitude of meets during these upcoming weeks. However, my coach has my team run 2 workouts a week, and with a weekly dual meet on top of this,this schedule has the potential to rapidly reduce that 50 mpw long before I find it necessary. To put it into context, I am a 10:00 3200 4:40 1600 guy. A recent workout I did was 10 x 400 @ 70s pace. I am well capable of running that workout in 67s if I really hammer it. Based on my understanding of what it means to peak and taper, I beleive I should be mantaining about 45 mpw for at least 3 more weeks and once those three weeks have passed, then I will begin speed up the intervals. Is this a correct understanding of what I should be doing? I have guys on my team who mantained similiar base mileage to myself, and largely as a result of my coach, have already halved that. Will they still be running strong at the end of the season when it matters. In the meantime, I've sort of been "going rogue" adding on distance runs after practice to mantain my 45 mpw. Can someone reassure me that I am following a sound training plan? or is it the case that I am overly obsessed with mileage. I hear of guys who run 30 mpw in high school and run 9:20 3200 and 4:15 1600. Should I aim to be like them, or is the plan I'm following more reasonable for improvement? Thanks in advance for any comments.