Quote Originally Posted by Howgill Tarrier View Post
This is interesting. Most of 'the books' suggest a focus on quality but I would agree that, for me and my limited experience, I ran better and had better results when I had a higher mileage and didn't worry about taking rest days, rep sessions etc. Difficult to judge when each run and race is so different, and I suspect that in my case this is pyschological: 'quality' sessions feel more like serious hard work and make running seem more like a chore than a joy.
Its a bit of a generalisation but I'm not particularly driven by races, maybe doing one event each month, so I don't worry too much about them and my racing 'performance'. That said the very best training for races that I know of is actually running races. And if I did run a race each week I know for sure my race times would improve.

But so would the chance of injuries and, in any event, running with Harry my collie is much more fun