In a base phase is there any benefit to limiting your mileage under 90-100 miles week assuming that mileage will not bring on an injury or affect workouts in the next phase of training?
In a base phase is there any benefit to limiting your mileage under 90-100 miles week assuming that mileage will not bring on an injury or affect workouts in the next phase of training?
If they are not going to affect training in the next phase, then why would you do them? The reason for doing high mileage in base training is precisely to affect workouts in the next phase. I would think there is a point of diminishing returns (the gain (capillary development, mitochondria, etc…) from going from 100 to 120 would be less than the gain in going from 80 to 100)
Sorry for being unclear. What I meant was not affecting the next phase negatively such as the high mileage makes the legs too tired to run workouts in the next phase correctly.
The mileage shouldn´t be so much that you have to take more than 1 week easy to recover, it´s IMPOSSIBLE to give better answer to your question, you know your limits best.
No, provided you are running much of it at a decent pace.
kmaclam wrote:
If they are not going to affect training in the next phase, then why would you do them? The reason for doing high mileage in base training is precisely to affect workouts in the next phase. I would think there is a point of diminishing returns (the gain (capillary development, mitochondria, etc…) from going from 100 to 120 would be less than the gain in going from 80 to 100)
How does this make sense? What do you mean they won't affect training in the next phase?
Even if jumping from 100 to 120 provides less gain than from 80 to 100, you're still admitting that 120 is better than 100.
So basically the only reason to limit mileage is because of either injury prevention or that the miles are detrimenting a person from producing quality workouts?
Or in other words the more miles the better until you a threshold where the miles hurt your performance in workouts.
Obviously finding that threshold is relative to each individual runner but ideally one should run as many miles as possible as long as their legs are not so fatigued that they can't workout well?
Hardloper wrote:
Even if jumping from 100 to 120 provides less gain than from 80 to 100, you're still admitting that 120 is better than 100.
Maybe he/she maint that you increase the risks of getting injured/overtrained while the possible benefits from the extra mileage are getting smaller and smaller. You know, there´s limits what your body can take, and if you aim for a longer career then maybe a bit reasonable mileage would be a good thing.
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