How much is too much?

[Track Fairy]

Listen to your body, run offroad where possible and take the occasional rest day or easy week. Do as much as possible within these contraints - for me somewhere in the region of 80-90 a week seems to be the optimal balance of getting fit enough and avoiding injury. It would be more if those buggers at work didn't require me to turn up in return for a salary....
Running rewards "time at the crease". If you throw enough time at it the rewards will come.

[Bisto]

No more than 40 for me as I tend to get injured. I guess it varies. I love seeing Bisto's posts on todays training. Anyone who can consistantly log over 100 miles a week is increadibly lucky to have that kind of bio-mechanics in my opinion. I wish my knees could take that kind of punishment!

Just seen this! Believe me, my body is a biomechanical mess! My left foot is really crooked and relies very very heavily on orthotics. I see a chiropractor once every two weeks and get regular massage and physio. Without these things I would not be able to do anywhere near the training I can do.

Defining what is too much is very individual. Depends on biomechanics (I'm lucky to have had my problem solved perfectly by the first person I saw), working life, family life, priorities, health and injury history. I always thought the more the better, but there is a point where it becomes too much.

[Chris]

If a thing's worth doing it's worth doing to excess.

Don't know whose quote it is but it's my favorite one.

[Joliver Jim]

If a thing's worth doing it's worth doing to excess.

Don't know whose quote it is but it's my favorite one.

Tell me about it. It's all I heard from you when I first started running. Took me two weeks to be injured. Cheers hubby.

[saz]

track fairy, enjoy it while you can, once you get old, not only does your body refuse to run that much but work tends to want more of your time as well...........

[haworth hobbler]

And me. Cant I be elite? I have, after all trained my body to withstand the hottest curries available from our local takeaway and can eat vast quantities of Stornaway black pudding

if your buying the black pudding from the chip shop by the harbour in stornaway, your either rich or i'm a yorkshireman!

[clodhopper]

if your buying the black pudding from the chip shop by the harbour in stornaway, your either rich or i'm a yorkshireman!

Nah. I buy a 1.4 KG roll of it from the butchers in Auchterarder every couple of weeks or so. Probablly too much I know but I give myself the odd easy week when I cut it back to maybe as little as 500g. My body seems to be coping reasonably ok so far.