Max sensible weekly mileage is 120 mpw?

It all depends. I believe that there are mileage caps for everyone and if you don't seems to improve after a certain mileage week, then stay where you are. Injury free and consistency are very important and if you can hold that mileage it will be really beneficial.

It's all about accumulating lifetime miles.

Maybe your easy runs are too fast? When you increase mileage you need to slow down for a while to let your body adapt.

How long do you you take to built up that mileage?

3 months. Do you think that it's enough?

I've kept it at just over 110, which takes me four or five weeks to adapt to and start running faster. I have to take a lot of naps, but I'd imagine that if you take it over 120, you would also adapt to it. At this point, why take it over 120 when you had a lot of success at that mileage. You would adapt in all probability the next time but right now wring what you can get from that distance and potentially slightly higher quality workouts and more lifetime miles at a high level.

120 mpw for the win wrote:

3 months. Do you think that it's enough?

Nope. Add 10mpw per cycle so you are looking at like 2 years to get up to 140mpw. Or do high mileage weeks with more rest. After that 140mpw, do a nice easy 110mpw one. There are not a lot of people out there who can crank out 10+ 140mile weeks while still doing quality work. A lot more people do a 4-6 week high mileage basis before cutting back to 120 and upping the quality slightly.

There is also a lot to be said of just holding the mileage at ~120mpw and try and getting in consistant training.

Yeah i shouldn't be so greedy and built that mileage too fast without slowly adapting...i guess the 10% rule just don't work when you're that high, even when i am increasing mileage like less than 5% every week.

A 7 miler at HM pace IS AN ALL OUR PERFORMANCE. Jesus, man!

Yeah it was pretty ridiculous. Granted, the run is done in trails of varying terrain (mostly grass and dirt), i cannot believe that i have to dig deep just to complete the workout on the right pace.

My HM PR is 1:06, also gonna try to bring it down, maybe sub 1:05?

Anyone got more ideas of running 140 plus miles? I have a very busy schedule so another 20 to 30 miles will be really hard on me, which will convert to about an extra 3 hours of training. Did anyone who had done it find it helpful? Just looking for answers and deciding if it's worth it for me to climb that high if i am ready for it.

120 mpw for the win wrote:

Maybe i couldn't do high mileage because i am untalented? (I barely broke 25 for 5K in my freshman high school year)

I wouldn´t say that you´re untalented...2:19 marathon and can do 120mpw consistently. Maybe the 120mpw is your sweet spot and should continue on that at least as long as you continue improving.

It's called periodization. If you do 140 a week in December-January, it's going to help you 6 months later. It's a phase.

You don't have to stay there. You could drop down to 80 and run every mile at sub 6.

Whatever works.

I agree with duh, that workout sounds way too hard. I'd consider 5@HM pace a really hard tempo, let alone 7.

Maybe you are doing most of your workouts too hard. In marathon training especially, consistency and overall volume are way more important than the difficulty of any one workout.

I was progressing nicely with 100 mile weeks. I ended up bumping to around 125 miles per week for about a month. Performance dropped, ended up with several sever injuries (plantar fasciitis, metatarsal stress fracture), and burn out. This was all in August of last year. I still haven't recovered from all of this. 120+ mile weeks ruined me.

I'm now reduced to maybe 25 miles per week of easy miles only. Even trying to touch my PR marathon pace feels like an all out effort.

I would think i am pretty untalented after going through threads that have people running sub 6 miles when they're like 10...

I can be considered 'sendentary' to those people who played soccer 3 times a day, coming from an east asia background, i played a lot of games as a kid, studied a huge ton as well. Maybe that's why i would think that i am untalented.

But then again, they say that improvement curve is part of genetics, and i am not improving better than others who are doing the same workouts. It's after i got serious and put in 50 mile weeks at high school i started to really hit it up, and also being called a 'talent'. lol

Yes i agree.

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i went from 2:33 (90 mpw with 3 workouts) to 2:26 after 6 months on 125 mpw (just 1 @mp workout)

Try your trolling at another thread,lol.A runner who runs 7 miler @HM pace and consistently will be doing 120 mpw will sooner or later have a meltdown.

Furthermore , you revealed yourself in your way of expressing yourself in the future and the present, lol