Base mileage and the other phases

Woah? Whats that point of this Topic? You should move to like the training sub-forum.

Sry posting here is not working for me.

Push Towards State wrote:Sry posting here is not working for me.

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Forget everything that just happened and look at the topic question.

nope lowering to about 40 or 50 would be reasonable.

yea almost everybody drops mileage when you get into the season. it's a part of peaking.

Ideally you're not gonna run 70 all summer and then drop suddenly to 40 in september. It would be better to stay at 50-60 by supplementing regular practices with more runs and then start cutting back in the last 4 weeks of the season.

Well it's hard to stay at the same mileage while doing speedwork, so no.

You don't really have a choice about whether or not your mileage stays up. It is inevitable that it will drop.

For example, my school has two races a week. The day before those races we probably wouldn't do more than 5-7 miles just to get ready for them. Once a week we do speedwork, and you only would do maybe a maximum of 5 miles on a speedwork day if you include your warm up and cool down. Also the day after a meet/day before speedwork could maybe be your longest run of the week, maxing out at 7-8 miles, but our team usually does our tempo runs that day, so it's usually only 5 miles. That brings the weekly mileage over six days to only a maximum of 33 miles, while over the summer we could be doing 50+ miles in six days.

I guess you could still keep your mileage up if you do include a long run once a week of maybe 10-13 or more miles on Sunday, but as AudienceOfOne pointed out, it is also part of peaking that your mileage goes down.

ya, i lower my mileage when the season starts

Well I've been doing 4-6 miles a day and once xc starts I'll be doing 6-11 a day.

Running With Scissors wrote:Well I've been doing 4-6 miles a day and once xc starts I'll be doing 6-11 a day.

Why?