Another Mileage question? TELL ME you guys noticed a drop in performance when you first increased MILES?

It happens to everyone. Depending on how much you increased it, it might be a couple of months or over a year until you feel back to normal (in terms of speed/racing/rest etc.) But then you'll start to get real fast real quick. Keep at it.

throw the odd mile into the odd run, hard out, and do some hill and flat sprints now and again, that will help a lot. Theres no question that running more miles than normal will take the zing out of your legs. Try not to take the extremes into practice, being a 'high mileage' guy or a 'low mileage guy' in the traditional sense is a mistake. The key is to work all/most facets of training for the majority of the year, just emphasize one or a few things at a time. For you that is volume right now. This is just what I recommend, you can just bang out relatively easy miles til your eyes pop, I did that and i'm now running very quick, but with that experience i would have done it the way i am now suggesting.

Good luck with your training, good to see you unafraid of running a lot, there is no substitute for hard work.

Thanks for the advice guys. Ive been running much more than before and have been increasing my mileage sensibly but still feeling heavy and tired and if anyhting running less well on workouts. It is early days so im assuming my body needs to adapt. I dont mind the hard work, i just need to know that wat im doing isnt wrong

anyone else get this?

Took me a year to get use to it. Freshman year my indoor 3k was practically identical to my HS PR in the 3200. This was after a whole season of XC and a winter of considerably higher miliage. A year later and I drop nearly 35 seconds. Stick with it, it works.

Two things I can think of that will help junior. I am going through the same thing also, so everything is a learning experience. 1) Do striders EVERY day. I find if I neglect these, I start to resemble the local shufflers. 2)When you're increasing your mileage, make sure you're running REALLY EASY.

Anyway, the striders should help. Good luck.

thanks for the advice guys. Do the strides need to be of any length or just feel your way through?

junior wrote:

Or am i just gettin a whole lot worse on more miles?

I experienced the same, but improved immensely soon after.

If you don't have to worry about racing or workouts for a season, after a few weeks of the higher mileage and getting used to the routine, add a steady state run. Also try adding one to 2 progression runs a week, and as was suggested earlier do strides at least 2 times a week. The strides are just to get something in relatively fast, maybe 3k-mile pace for 100m per stride out. After a few more weeks or after getting comfortable with this as long as everything is stable, you could start to mix it up a bit more. I guess the point is you really only need to do pretty much all substantially easy running when you are building the mileage. Once you have adapted you can run some faster mileage, just make sure not to jump too fast.

Yep, got slower -- went from 45 or so to 60. Speed came back with a vengeance when I went cut back down to 45 for a peak.

I dropped my 5k PR from 18:14 to 15:39 in one year.... increased mileage from roughly 50 to 80

Hey, just don't over analyze. Do a few a few times a week, keep them under a football field in length, & just RUN baby. Keep pluggin'.

It'll come one day: you'll run your favorite training loop, you'll finish and when you check your watch you'll do a double take and think "Whaaaa...?" when you find a few minutes drop off like "BAM"!

Then, you're in.

Thanks for all the advice guys...its nice to know that your not alone and other r going through the same!