Quote Originally Posted by Oracle View Post
Back in marathon days, I tried doing 90-100 but later found less was more. I never recovered on that regime. Always knackered.

I ran much faster times on 5 day running. A very long. A moderately long fast, a set of long reps and maybe two pace runs over 10 and 6, was maybe 60 total.
Translating to fells a 4 -6 hour slow , a 2-3 hour fast. Two one hours and a set of hill circuit reps lasting an hour. All my best times came from those, and could do any AL off that training.
My coach is of the opinion you should run every day (if your fitness is up to it), but only hard twice a week. So if racing every weekend then that's only one hard session in a week.

I do find it difficult to manage everything, as we tend to have two club hard sessions a week (99% of my clubmates consider my racing schedule to be utterly reckless, and they might race 5 times a year outside of cross country and road relays). But i'd prefer to have a hard hill session in there too, if time permitted. I tend to drop the hard hill session, and keep the club sessions, as i think it's important to run hard on the flat even when training for fells.