Today's Training

[Stolly]

How do people plan there mileage over a week. For say 70 miles

I rarely ever run 70 miles but, were I to, I'd be running twice a day in the week I guess (morning and evening). None of my running is particularly planned and its much more running for fun with the dog than 'training' but, in terms of distance, its typically 20 miles in the week (5 x 4 miles and all headtorched at this time of year) and anything between 20 and 30 miles at the weekends. Its pretty much 99.99999% off road in the hills with say 7,000 to 10,000 ft of climb each week.

[Derby Tup]

How do people plan there mileage over a week. For say 70 miles

Drive 45 to 50 miles and run the rest

[dominion]

How do people plan there mileage over a week. For say 70 miles

It's been a long while since I've done that sort of mileage but back in the dim and distant past it would have been something like,

Monday pm 8 miles easy
Tuesday pm 8 miles inc 3 - 4 miles of efforts, eg 12 or 16 x 400, 6 or 8 x 800 (mostly track based session)
Wednesday am 5 miles, pm 8-10 miles
Thursday pm variation on Tuesday or tempo run / fartlek totaling about the same
Friday pm 5 miles easy
Saturday am 3 or 4 x 1 mile plus a couple of miles warm up / warm down pm 5 miles easy
Sunday am 15 - 18 easy

That gets you to 70 - 75.

[IainR]

Long runs.. mid week too..

I do 90.. typical week is below, but I mix up the days, at the moment long runs are evenings..

s: 20 miles [20]
m: 10 miles [30]
t: am: 10k pm: 10k with reps [42]
W: 14 miles [56]
t: lunch: 4 pm: 8 [68]
f: am 5 pm: 5 [78]
s: 12 [90]

Doubles are good at preventing tiredness, 2 easy 5s are much easier than 1 10 on your body, well for me.

[spen]

Thanks for a the replies lads. I am not able to do doubles due to work, the guy I will be doing intervals with at Stoke ac said doubles are good.

Really want to press on with my training now


Out of interest do any of you train on really steep hills, like the hands on knees type? Or does speed training get you used to the high heart rate?

[dominion]

Long runs.. mid week too..

I do 90.. typical week is below, but I mix up the days, at the moment long runs are evenings..

s: 20 miles [20]
m: 10 miles [30]
t: am: 10k pm: 10k with reps [42]
W: 14 miles [56]
t: lunch: 4 pm: 8 [68]
f: am 5 pm: 5 [78]
s: 12 [90]

Doubles are good at preventing tiredness, 2 easy 5s are much easier than 1 10 on your body, well for me.

But do 2 5s have the same benefit as 1 10? Obviously if you want to benefit from an easy day then yes, but if you want to benefit from running 10 then I suspect not.

[IainR]

No.. but I can do 2 5s and a hard session/race.. I still think you need some recovery in a schedule.. every day can't be hard runs.

[IainR]

Re specifics.. hands/knees and all that.. I used to train specifically say for the Ben.. because thats a hill walk, but it would just be a few hard reps on elidir or somewhere more specific. For Snowdon etc I think running was enough. I found getting off the hills helped, more undulating hard trail running. On teh proper hills its too easy to be lazy, think you are working hard...

[Al Fowler]

No.. but I can do 2 5s and a hard session/race.. I still think you need some recovery in a schedule.. every day can't be hard runs.

With regards to rest, do you ever back off/generally have a very easy period to let the body recover, or do you try to keep turning over the same mileage and sessions, week in week out.

A very good runner at my club uses a cycle of 4 week cycle....3 weeks hard, 1 week easy/recover. Im injured at the moment, but I'm considering giving it a go myself once I'm training again.

[IainR]

With regards to rest, do you ever back off/generally have a very easy period to let the body recover, or do you try to keep turning over the same mileage and sessions, week in week out.

A very good runner at my club uses a cycle of 4 week cycle....3 weeks hard, 1 week easy/recover. Im injured at the moment, but I'm considering giving it a go myself once I'm training again.

Yeah many do that.. I tend not to, but will run 3 - 4 key races a year so have those as long tapers... but I dont race much so that works well, and I also just focus on longer races. If I was racing weekly in the summer I'd do lower mileage.