Dropping Mileage in Season???

I'm in the same boat... going from roughly 60-70mpw over summer to now just over 50. I'm interested in hearing the responses if that's really bad or not.

** correction...my 10 mile long run will be sunday, the day after the race.

Guys please do not drop your mileage in season. You may have to slow some of it down but carry on with the volume as usual. Your mileage will be the one thing that separates you from your teammates and competition. THink about it, everyone drops their mileage in season and peaks in October.

Just treat it like a down week. It won't make you peak early if it's just for a week

Peaking only works for American's

nobody else in the world "peaks" early or late.

i have meets every saturday in Semptember. I do have a stretch from 9/29 to 10/11 with no meets... but i don't think its smart to all of a sudden jack up my mileage mid season.

Similar issue: built up to 70 miles for 3 weeks and then had minor calf issue and the following week ran about 30-35 then had to cross train for 3 days. Feeling better now and will go back up in mileage. How will that affect my season?

My quick explanation. When running summer miles there is very little intensity and a huge amount of volume. Coaches add intensity (workouts) during the season. Mileage/volume goes down because intensity goes up and when both go up...we get injuries.

Relax and trust your coaches. They want you to run well in November. Just work hard when you get a quality workout and recover on easy days and you will PR. I guarantee it.

Good luck!

My coach can barely speak English. Peaking is the last thing he's worried about.

Your team's early season ranking means nothing.

You should keep your mileage up, but don't add any more mileage. The bulk of your runs should be easy. Run mornings if you have too.

You should cruise all your workouts. The point of workouts is to learn to run fast without working hard and especially without racing. If you work hard you are learning the wrong thing.

You should race all your races. You run many races in a season to learn how to work hard and race as fast as you can.

I think you'd be fine around 65 or so. Lydiard always said that you can't race and train hard simultaneously. You don't want to be at your highest miles when you're racing and doing intervals. On the other hand you don't want to be too low, but aerobic fitness is easier to maintain than it is to develop. If I were coaching you, I'd probably have you at 60-65 or so for the season, keeping a sort of long run in the mix, but again, not going for your longest run ever. That is, if you're comfortable at 10 I'd keep it at about 10. I'd wait until after the season to try longer runs.