Getting injured on current milage? Solution just increase it by 50miles per week!

If you do it correctly wrote:

Hmmmmmm wrote:

Won’t doubling mileage increase stress and recovery time on the body though. What are the guidelines?

No sessions included?

Just easy runs?

10%increase per month?

100 mpw of which nothing but easy jogging. You will notice little aches and pains. But if you keep it to nothing but easy jogging you should be good. Do this for a couple of weeks(about 4 weeks should be good). When you start doing workouts again, reduce total running volume.

While 50 to 100 low is extreme, I also believe it would help you. The important thing is probably that you will be running slower (because you can't handle 100 mpw on your current pace). That's what keeps you healthy (not getting injured, most injuries come from the intense stuff). And the mileage makes you stronger so you can handle the faster pace better when you include it again slowly.

Here is my personal and observational experience.

If you have a runner who has good mechanics and isn't prone to bone injuries, a slow build will reduce injuries. The majority of the stress will be cardiovascular and muscular. All the supportive muscular and connective tissues adapt and reduce injury probability.

If you have poor mechanics and/or weak bones, the added stress will likely injure you even with a slow build. Poor mechanics can exaggerate stress to specific joints or bones that is less likely to increase the possibility of injury.

That all being said as my theory, I also think that consistency is an important part of the equation to staying injury free and runners who run high mileage are the consistently the most consistent with their training... so who really knows.

Haven't been on this board in over 10 years. Don't even remember my registered username and too lazy to go reset it. Glad to see this place hasn't changed.

High fives to the best "Let's Run" snarky response and another set of high fives for the comment with the most wisdom or incite to the high mileage proposal.

Wow! Burn me for not proof reading. Poor mechanics can exaggerate stress to specific joints or bones that is more likely to increase the possibility of injury. Truly getting old.

This is a fascinating idea. I'm a very low mileage runner, around 10-15 mpw. Not out of choice, but I just get constant niggles, one after another. I've found there's pretty much no lower bound where I won't get beat up. When I try to step it up to 20 or so, it gets worse, so I drop back down. I'm otherwise quite healthy and fit.

100 for me would be absurd, but are you guys suggesting I jump up to 30-40 and run super slow for a few weeks? It sounds suicidal to me, but wow, if it worked...

OK, here's a question: have any of you ever done this mileage jump and found that after A YEAR (not just a few weeks), you were significantly less injured?

If you do it correctly wrote:

100 mpw of which nothing but easy jogging. You will notice little aches and pains. But if you keep it to nothing but easy jogging you should be good. Do this for a couple of weeks (about 4 weeks should be good).

If "a couple of weeks" is about 4, can we assume that 100 mpw is about 50, or are you suggesting that we run about 200 mpw?

Illogical right? wrote:

Any scientific study’s to prove your point?

Still not buying it. Anyone on my side?!

Any scientific study is to prove your point??

I used to be constantly injured running 20mpw as a middle schooler. It just got worse once the high school coach started putting in heavy speedwork on similar mileage, and at one point I couldn't physically run because of how bad my hips and knees hurt. The next offseason I slowed down a lot and ramped it up to 50mpw, and I haven't been injured in the last 3 years.

Hardloper wrote:

Illogical right? wrote:

Does this method sound dumb to anyone else but me! If your body can’t handle 50miles how is 100miles going to help?!

Don't knock it if you haven't tried it

I've tried it, can I knock it? Jumping from 50 mpw to 100mpw is too extreme. If you drop all hard days and make sure your pace is easy, going abruptly from 50mpw to 75 is okay. 70 to 100 is ok. 50 to 100 is just to l big a jump.

I might be double your age, so I'm just gonna advice you to work on your biomechanics.

Running slow miles is a safe approach, but you're gonna eventually reach another limit where you will get injured again. So yeah, work on making your running form smoth and relaxed first.

old runner_coach wrote:

Here is my personal and observational experience.

If you have a runner who has good mechanics and isn't prone to bone injuries, a slow build will reduce injuries. The majority of the stress will be cardiovascular and muscular. All the supportive muscular and connective tissues adapt and reduce injury probability.

If you have poor mechanics and/or weak bones, the added stress will likely injure you even with a slow build. Poor mechanics can exaggerate stress to specific joints or bones that is less likely to increase the possibility of injury.

That all being said as my theory, I also think that consistency is an important part of the equation to staying injury free and runners who run high mileage are the consistently the most consistent with their training... so who really knows.

There's a lot of truth in this post. I used to get hurt (not injured, just beat up) on low mileage, speed work, and lots of stretching. Increase your mileage, jog easy instead of taking a day off, and slow down your runs until you feel adapted to the new higher mileage.

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Was expecting something else wrote:

Opened this thinking it was gonna be another joke of a thread, surprised with the quality of these posters, thanks!

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Kennekuk Jack wrote:

There's a lot of truth in this post. I used to get hurt (not injured, just beat up) on low mileage, speed work, and lots of stretching. Increase your mileage, jog easy instead of taking a day off, and slow down your runs until you feel adapted to the new higher mileage.

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