I'm thinking of increasing my mileage from 65mpw to 100mpw by September. Reason being:
1. I have no responsibility for the next 5 months, I can train/sleep as much as I want. I don't have a problem with getting as much recovery as I need.
2. 65mpw doesn't make me tired at all as my diet is solid, all whole fresh food and I think I could handle a mileage jump.
3. I run barefoot and I believe it's given me an efficient form. I started as a barefoot runner, it just appealed to me and I kept at it. I've never had any injury or niggle that's held me back. I run 60% of my miles on a grass soccer field in 1km loops or on 800m loops on a farm with a rolling hill. I do long runs on a farmers tractor trail which is 26 miles long of hard packed mud, so very easy on the legs and feet. I would imagine if I ran 100mpw this summer all barefoot I'd have great muscle memory for running economy in the winter when I have to wear shoes (30mpw is doable but not doing 100mpw in cold).
4. I have no seasons to train around, just a road runner. I have all this free time I could be using to build a massive base.
5. With no coach it would be easier to just get to 100mpw all easy runs then do a 5K race get a jack daniels vdot THEN start adding in workouts slowly.
Would it be a dumb idea to do this? I've read about people doing mileage jumps and being okay. I've been on a conservative plan from June 2015 when I first started running at 0mpw and built up to 25 in November.
I'm male 170lb, 6'4", 28. I run 65mpw 7 days a week currently with doubles. Here is my past mileage. Easy days 8 min pace, 1 tempo run of 4-6 miles at 6:25-6:40 pace, 1 long run of 20-25% weekly mileage first 6 miles easy last 6 miles all out. 1 5k race every Saturday usually go all out every 3-4weeks.
Four Week Block 1 - 25, 17, 25, 12.5 miles 19av) NOVEMBER 3rd 2015
Four Week Block 2 - 30, 21, 30, 15 miles (24av) DECEMBER 28th 2015
Four Week Block 3 - 40, 28, 40, 20 miles (32av) JANURARY 25th
Four Week Block 4 - 45, 31, 45, 22.5 miles (35av) FEBRUARY 22nd
Four Week Block 5 - 50, 35, 50, 25 miles (40av) MARCH 28th
Four Week Block 6 - 55, 38, 55, 27.5 miles (43av) APRIL 25th
Four Week Block 7 - 60, 42, 60, 30 miles (48av) MAY 23rd
Four Week Block 8 - 65, 45, 65, 32.5 miles (51av) JUNE 20th
Four Week Block 9 - 70, 49, 70, 35 miles (56av) JULY 18th
Four Week Block 10 - 75, 50, 75, 37.5 miles (59av) AUGUST 15th
Four Week Block 11 - 80, 56, 80, 40 miles (64av) SEPTEMBER 12th
Four Week Block 12 - 85, 60, 85, 42.5 miles (68av) OCTOBER 10th
Four Week Block 13 - 90, 62, 90, 45 miles (71av) NOVEMBER 7th
Four Week Block 14 - 95, 66, 95, 47.5 miles (75av) DECEMBER 5th
Four Week Block 15 - 100, 70, 100, 50 miles (80av) JANUARY 2nd 2017
My last high week (ran 65 instead of 60)
06/06/16. DOUBLE
6 Miles. 2pm. EZ.
3 Miles 10:30pm. EZ.
07/06/16. DOUBLE
2 Miles. EZ. Nice little warm up 2 miler, ended in like a 7 minute mile, felt good.
6 Miles. 5:30PM EZ/H. WTF happened here, I started off slow but the pace got faster than race pace last 2-3km.
08/06/16. 7 Miles. EZ.
09/06/16. 8 Miles. EZ. Ran this at 5:04km pace or faster, finishing in 4:07km pace.
10/06/16. 8 Miles. EZ.
11/06/16. DOUBLE
4 Miles. EZ 12:30. Kenyan Hill.
8 Miles. Easy pace with 3 mile repeats not all out. Hit the first mile lap in 7:45 then 6:45 then 5:50
12/06/16. 14 Miles. First 4km without watch and then ran 5:04 easy pace until 10km then ran average around 4:09 pace per km until 20km.
When I race my legs are never tired, I always always kick the last 400m with a strong sprint at 200-100. My breathing holds me back, same with my long run. I do the last half of the long run as fast as I can without getting out of breath but my legs are always strong ready to go faster. This is why I want to do a mileage jump because I feel it's the miles holding me back.
Here is the stinker, I only run 18:40 for 5K! Always held back by my aerobic endurance. My goal is to run 5K sub 15. I did a test yesterday to see what 16 minute pace feels like so I went out ahead of him and he caught me up at 800m but I ran with him for a little bit and I was surprised how slow his pace actually was, it still felt like jogging, he just slowly edged away from me and I couldn't keep up only because I got out of breath, my legs were fine.
So I'm thinking I could handle a mileage jump? Plan would be to throw away the watch and run easy effort everyday 7 days a week in doubles. Maybe run faster if I feel good by the end of the week. I would still stick to the 100-70-100-50 plan. Maybe jump to 80mpw now then see how that feels and jump to 100. Bad idea?