Doubles

Does it matter what days you double on? For example, would it be better to double on a 20-30 min tempo day to get more mileage in because the tempo won't result in many miles? Or does it not matter?

EDIT: Another question that I didn't want to make a new thread for. Since I'm skipping Cross Country (read the Skipping Cross Country thread for more info) that leaves with me 7ish months of base. Would it be beneficial to instead of just constantly building up, to build up for a couple months, then drop down for 2ish weeks as kind of a "recovery" then build back up higher? I don't want to A: Peak early, or B: Burn out...

Doubles are meant to get more mileage in for you without having a hard workout. So if you do a double on your tempo day that would be fine but one of the workouts should be easy, just to loosen your legs up for your tempo.

personally i think doubles are useless for high schoolers unless if your doing a tonnnn of mileage which towards the end of your base maybe you will be. but if your supposed to do a 10 mile long run don't split it up into two fives you'll benefit more with just the 10 miles..you don't need to do doubles unless if your running like 20 miles a day or something ridiculous like that..i guess you could if you have a work out but then again you don't really want to do more than a workout on those hard days..idk just my opinion..
and the building up then backing down and building up more sounds veryy good that will help you a lot i would think from burning out because it gives you a rest which you will definetly need if your doing base for 7+ months.

Doubles are less benfitial than longer single runs, until you get to day (other than long run day) that you're mileage is above 10. At that point, do doubles. NEVER double up on your long run or split your long run, because that defeats the purpose of the long run.

it doesn't matter too much. i'd double on harder days though, for recovery.

constantly build up mileage. peaking and burning out are basically the same thing.

Some examples of the days I double on are 10 mile recovery days (not long run days) that I need to get my mileage. I might do a single run for one of them, but the other 3 I will just split up into 6 and 4 or something like that.

bago, how many mpw are you doing?

If I double (it is rare), I do it on quality days. I'll do 3 miles in the morning and the workout later. This usually ends up being a 9 mile day, which is on the higher end of my daily mileage.

AudienceOfOne wrote:bago, how many mpw are you doing?

60

nice.

Yeah I wouldn't double unless your into the 70 mpw territory. I'm trying to build up to 130 mpw by doing doubles. One moderately long run in the morning and long tempo runs in the afternoon. I'm doing some stride workouts no to get used to running since I haven't been running for 6 months.

Push Towards State wrote:Yeah I wouldn't double unless your into the 70 mpw territory. I'm trying to build up to 130 mpw by doing doubles. One moderately long run in the morning and long tempo runs in the afternoon. I'm doing some stride workouts no to get used to running since I haven't been running for 6 months.

What state are you from?

What does your schedual look like push?

I'm from Illinois.

What are your PRs?

in the winter i would use to do two 6 mile runs during the day. but they were both hill runs. and then have my long run the next day. my endurance was great then. but i didnt have the speed i have now