I think I will have to do easy week hard week. I tend to have my daughters every other weekend so fits in. When I mean hard I mean 20 mile back to backs.
I think I will have to do easy week hard week. I tend to have my daughters every other weekend so fits in. When I mean hard I mean 20 mile back to backs.
I didn't train hard enough to warrant a week off every 3! I used to have a very easy 2 weeks once a year. I should point out that my training was for road / track and cross country. I didn't really do any fell running until I'd packed in training properly. That said, I was crap on the few fell races that I did even when I was training well!
I do this when building. When making significant gains in fitness I really benefit from an easy week as above.Originally Posted by Al Fowler
The one key difference with me is I'm not very good.
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Thanks for the advice guys. I am trying to get better.
Roaches yesterday then a hard hilly road race tonight.
6.35 miles 1020ft ascent 4th but small field, legs very heavy but 39.52 was ok, destroyed by Stu Walker who broke the 52 mile 15 trigs record 2 days ago. so no complaints..
Just the six easy tonight. Legs were a bit stiff from the roaches.
I tried for a while a 4 week cycle of : 1 steady weeks, 1 hard, 1 steady, 1 easy I averaged around 60 a week.. I think easy was 40-45 harder over 70 others just above 60...
Seemed OK but i was racing too much at the time so I was getting messed around.
I think doubles are important when trying to hit a mileage, its all about getting the body used to that training load.. so plateau.. 2-4 weeks just that mileage, not much racing or reps.. then add those.. then step again.. but drop the efforts for a few weeks again..
Just did 20 miles late on, really hard work, but last long run before JFK 50.. managed 3 20 milers in the run up all sub 7 so about in the right shape so feel OK.. philly half next weekend...
I will have to adapt it as I've mentioned not possible to do doubles very often. Also two weekends out of four have to be light.
See what works.. we all respond differently, I like a high training load, I'm doing more quality now, for 90 miles last week I averaged 7 min miles, I had one or two slow short jogs, the rest were 6:20-6:50 pace, with only one rep session. But that seems to keep me improving.
Others run far better of less loads, more cross-training, but I do think many who do come off a base of another sport or previous high mileage. I've a friend here who only runs 50k a week and is a 66 min half marathoner but literally he runs to work, 1 mile, in 4 minutes something and in the evening does 5k's sub 15 minutes.. everything is absolute shear quality, but he comes from a base of a junior international for Germany and spending many summers in Kenya running 100 mile weeks.
I'm not a fan of back to back longs unless the odd weekend in the mountains, here its all quality flat trail running so i can do my long runs any day because they are less than 2:30 for 20+ miles. But I'm quite a big guy so long runs do hurt, so tend to give a day in between, so 20 last night, 6.8 this morning, similar tonight, then 13 tomorrow..
I seem to havw hit a massive plateau and at a loss really at getting through it
Trying some track intervals with Stoke ac next.
I do back to backs as im training for Hardmoors 110 and slowly getting myself used to the long runs.
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