Steve Prefontaine Weekly Mileage

I'm just a hobbyrunner wrote:

Thanks for the correction.

Unfortunately you forgot to talk about running at all.

Furthermore, I don't think you're correct that those phrases mean very different things. I know you wanted to stress your point, but you did it at the expense of precision, which is the same mistake I made.

Take a look in a dictionary. You'll find they do mean entirely different things. Raising the question is when a question naturally arisises from a set of circumstances.

For example "it hurts when I deliberately hit my head with a hammer" "this raises he question, 'why do you do it then?'"

Begging the question is a logical fallacy known as circular reasoning - assuming to be true, that which needs to be proven. Example " I know God exists because it says so in the Bible". It has NOTHING to do with asking obvious questions.

Wondering in the West wrote:

I care about Pre, Mr. Green Flash, I also care about grammar and writing better than your average 6 year old, which you can't do.

Your sentence doesn't scan, Bruno. It's a mess, in fact. Was that intentional, and ironic--i.e., were you trying to brutalize the English language as a way of telling Green Flash "I can mess up the language, too"--or did you really not know you were being ungrammatical?

How many miles a week does a high schooler need to run to go D1?

Wondering in the West wrote:

I care about Pre, Mr. Green Flash, I also care about grammar and writing better than your average 6 year old, which you can't do.

Incidentally Pre spelled and had the grammar of a 6 year old.

mark b wrote:

Shortly after his death (I think it would have been in 1976, my first year at university here in the UK) a British international runner told me that he heard that Pre seriously upped his mileage when he started to run 10k on the track and was intending to do well in excess of 120 a week in preparation for a double in Montreal with the 10k as his main focus. How he knew this I have np idea! but maybe Pre was influenced by Viren's periods of very high mileage?

He was more influenced by Viren absolutely schooling him.

Go to Nike. His logs are on display.

Link or it doesn't exist.Seriously--I googled around but couldn't find this. There are letters people have posted. One from March says he's in Denver training really hard with Shorter and some guys he met around there. Close to 20 miles a day. He talks about Montreal so I'm guessing that was '75.

Nike FTW wrote:

Go to Nike. His logs are on display.

He might have only run the one 10k AR (I can't remember) but I remember he also ran some good 6 miles. There was definitely talk of him ultimately moving up to the 10k as his main event, although I don't know if the plan was before or after Montreal.

college professor wrote:

Wondering in the West wrote:

I care about Pre, Mr. Green Flash, I also care about grammar and writing better than your average 6 year old, which you can't do.

Your sentence doesn't scan, Bruno. It's a mess, in fact. Was that intentional, and ironic--i.e., were you trying to brutalize the English language as a way of telling Green Flash "I can mess up the language, too"--or did you really not know you were being ungrammatical?

You idiot. He's trolling.

Or maybe you're trolling too.

friend of a friend of Pre wrote:

I was given his 1975 journal by a friend of his. It details his workouts for the year up to 25 May. His miles per week are as follows.

89-70-81-66.5 On the last day of December he ran 16.5 miles and on

New Years Day he ran 11.0

64.5-84.5-119-113.5

114.5-127-130-96

114.5-102.5-98-84.5

83-96.5-90.5-79.0 ending on 25 May

This poster emailed us to say they really do have Pre's logs and are a real person.

As that exact year training log is behind glass in the Prefontaine Hall on Nike's campus. Glad he confirmed he was a real person though.

Pre was a beast on the track. Today, with all the advantages of nutrition and more advanced training, he would easily be under 27:00 for 10,000 and under 13:00 for 5,000.

Pre worked at the Paddock, so he didn't really need to run to a liquor store. Drinking rumors are fake. BTW, I was on the women's running club, and one day Pre sat down next to me on the grass inside Heyward field. I told him my resting heart rate was better than his, so he checked it. It was.

They were vitamins.

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I'm just a hobbyrunner wrote:

This just reinforces for me what I've read many times: If you want to run your best, mileage is key (in distance running).

So this begs the question: What is the sweet-spot mileage during a non-base-phase to perform to maximum personal ability in the 5k? and in the 10k?

Initially I would have guessed 80 and 90 mpw respectively, but after reading some of the posts above, I wonder if it's closer to 90 and 100 or more.

Insight, anybody?

As much as you can handle. It's that simple.

green flash wrote:

nobody care about him anymore.he only looks cool to the american..to the kenyan..Pre is nobody.even high school kenyan can easily beat Pre in his prime

Not without epo.

I'm just a hobbyrunner wrote:

This just reinforces for me what I've read many times: If you want to run your best, mileage is key (in distance running).

So this begs the question: What is the sweet-spot mileage during a non-base-phase to perform to maximum personal ability in the 5k? and in the 10k?

Initially I would have guessed 80 and 90 mpw respectively, but after reading some of the posts above, I wonder if it's closer to 90 and 100 or more.

Insight, anybody?

It's good to do a lot of running. But not so much running that you get hurt. If you get hurt, then you have done too much running. Running a lot is the key to success. Really good runners, like Olympians, run a lot. So, it is good to do like they do, which, to summarize, is to do a good deal of running. The most important thing to know about getting a good race time is to do a lot of running in your training. It is, far and away, the most important thing a runner can do.

Dingler wrote:

He might have only run the one 10k AR (I can't remember) but I remember he also ran some good 6 miles. There was definitely talk of him ultimately moving up to the 10k as his main event, although I don't know if the plan was before or after Montreal.

He ran at least two 10,000s on the track. 27:43 and 28:08.