Thinking of cutting milage completely and just doing 200 uphilll repeats @ mile pace 6 days a week for 2 months

You will never be able to spell mileage correctly if you give up now.

Cool

Stagnation - why would it lead to anything else? You've no differential stimulus. Sure, you'll improve in the short run, but long term?

I plan on adding to the amount of repeats I’m going to do each week.

12x200 this week, then 14 the next and so on until I’m getting into the 30-40 range and five miles of quality speedwork a day.

I enjoy hill repeats. I don’t enjoy milage.

your turnover will slow down and you will lose speed

Are you currently doing other workouts besides just easy runs? If you set on doing hill workouts at least do them every other day and not just 200s. Do hill sprints, 200s and longer hill repeats like 400-800 meters maybe. Mix it up. Even doing 200s all the time will be boring!

Not a College Runner wrote:

your turnover will slow down and you will lose speed

+1

and your stride length will shrink

and your ground contact will increase

...eventually, you'll probably run sort of like a reasonably fit rower with halfway decent running form would run.

I expect that you will gain a lot of experience at running up a 200m hill. I imagine that you will be happy doing this.

Not a College Runner wrote:

your turnover will slow down and you will lose speed

I thought sprinting hills was the quickest way to build speed

Milagecutter wrote:

Not a College Runner wrote:

your turnover will slow down and you will lose speed

I thought sprinting hills was the quickest way to build speed

You thought wrong.

Milagecutter wrote:

Not a College Runner wrote:

your turnover will slow down and you will lose speed

I thought sprinting hills was the quickest way to build speed

Mile pace is not sprinting, sprinting is sprinting. Mile pace on an average 200m hill will not be easy, but will not build speed.

Hills are good at elevating HR quickly, but you have to run fast to build speed.

Doesn't sound like a good plan at all, too much intensity. You can probably be better off running 30 minutes every other day honestly.

I know you don't want 1000 replies about how you will get injured, so I'll just leave one. You will get injured.

Milagecutter wrote:

What results would this plan lead to exactly? I mean in terms of vo2 max improvements, mile time improvements, leg speed, etc. The reason I’m considering doing this is because Im getting extremely bored of running milage and I just don’t have the patience for it anymore.

Also assume injury isn’t a factor when addressing this question because I don’t want 1000 replies on how it would bring on injury. I’ve been going hard for years and I don’t tend to get injured.

Stay below 8 reps

< eight wrote:

Milagecutter wrote:

What results would this plan lead to exactly? I mean in terms of vo2 max improvements, mile time improvements, leg speed, etc. The reason I’m considering doing this is because Im getting extremely bored of running milage and I just don’t have the patience for it anymore.

Also assume injury isn’t a factor when addressing this question because I don’t want 1000 replies on how it would bring on injury. I’ve been going hard for years and I don’t tend to get injured.

Stay below 8 reps

I’m currently doing 8 reps at about 20 sec below mile pace give or take. I was thinking of adding two reps per week. How come you suggest staying below 8 may I ask?

After eight reps, you will start doing mileage.

< eight wrote:

After eight reps, you will start doing mileage.

Not too bothered about that, I only consider long runs and recovery/junk miles as milage. After all, the 200s are still a quality workout as opposed to pure milage.

Are you doing 200 hill repeats, or 200m hill repeats? At first I thought you were doing 33.3 a day for 6 days, buy now I think you are doing 200m repeats.

Maybe only do it for a 6 weeks. Hopefully by then you are ready to go back to mileage. 4 days a week of hill repeats is probably better thought.