Interested in true Lydiard disciples who know what mileage levels should be after the base phase:
Hills,
Anaerobic, etc
Curious if there is a big drop in mileage during the anaerobic phase.
Thanks
Interested in true Lydiard disciples who know what mileage levels should be after the base phase:
Hills,
Anaerobic, etc
Curious if there is a big drop in mileage during the anaerobic phase.
Thanks
During the anaerobic phase you want to maintain aerobic conditioning, continuing to do a long run and medium long run. However, if you replace easy runs with interval workouts then your mileage is automatically going to drop. Don't focus on mileage anyway.
Correct.
Mileage is kept through the hill phase and anaerobic phase...even though you can make it pretty daunting...but you have to listen to your body.
...a lot of people think that the mileage drops once into the hill phase.
Athletics Illustrated wrote:
Correct.
Mileage is kept through the hill phase and anaerobic phase...even though you can make it pretty daunting...but you have to listen to your body.
...a lot of people think that the mileage drops once into the hill phase.
Doesn't it though?
This seems to indicate that it drops to 50mi a week or less.
http://www.bunnhill.com/bobhodge/Special/LydiardInterpreted.htmNo. The mileage in the hill phase stays pretty high. Some of the hill sessions can cover 12-14 miles and you still have long runs on days when you're not running hills.
And Anaerobic phase?
HRE wrote:
No. The mileage in the hill phase stays pretty high. Some of the hill sessions can cover 12-14 miles and you still have long runs on days when you're not running hills.
True Lydiard disciples would tell you the "actual mileage" is completely variable according to your fitness and ability. The point is that you need to be doing a regular dose of aerobic running throughout the training phases and a few times per month a solid long run.
There is not a huge drop of mileage during the anaerobic phase, but there is a bigger emphasis on recovery. You want plenty of aerobic runs to move the blood in your body, but you don't want to fall into the trap of doing too many steady state type runs once you're doing the intervals. Think of runs between workouts as being long recovery runs rather than their own aerobic workouts.
Yes. Mileage would drop during the anaerobic phase and into racing season. If you read the schedules in Lydiard's books the mileage drop is pretty dramatic. But Barry Magee that they usually ran for an hour most mornings very easily so the drop wasn't as much as indicated. But you would drop your miles by the anaerobic phase.