Hi folks. I'm currently thinking of upping my weekly mileage from the current 25 or so, but am curious to know how all the other high-mileage (40-50+) runners here fit their miles in around the rest of their lives. Do you do lots of long runs in the week? Or mega-long runs at weekends? Train twice a day? Would be interested to hear how you manage it. Cheers, SW.
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I have to make sure I drink a lot during the day and running through the centre of Leeds can be an experience(Do I look like I want a Big Issue?) but it doesnt half help clock up the miles!
Really wish work had a shower as I feel the hour at lunch is just going to waste!!
Mon 6
tue 6 + 6
Wed 6
Thurs 4
Fri 10
Sat 6
Sun 10-15
Like you, I am trying to up my mileage so, Iam doing longer runs during the week. Instead of the 4M runs, I am doing now 6M. I also do longer runs on the weekends. You have to be careful with overtraining and start to increase mileage really slow. Good luck!
Just before my last marathon my schedule was something like
Mon: rest
Tues: 7-8 miles (speed sesh)
Wed: 10-12 miles easy
Thurs: 6 miles (steady)
Fri: rest
Sat: 6 miles steady
Sun: 22 miles
This was my peak week, the sessions were the same the rest of the time but the long runs were slightly shorter.
I would like to get a couple of double sessions in next time around though.
The only way to fit it in was that <something> had to go out of my life to make room. In my case, it was TV, which was banished to an unused room of the house, and has barely been watched since. I still managed to have a social life and buy a house during this time! Not saying life was easy though, in fact this whole period of my life was quite stressful! but I knew that I had to get the miles in to stand a chance of doing a half-decent time at FLM.
I'm now doing 40-50 miles per week again but work freelance, so tend to get up, work for a bit, and do my runs while Mr LizzyB is still at work. Still don't have a TV though.
Which, come to think of it, is now - Keswick Half on 4th May, Moonwalk marathon on 10th May. But they're just for fun :-)
I then get the kids in bed by about 6.45 and do say
5 Mon
8 Tues (club session)
6 to 12 Weds (high if marathon training)
8 Thurs (club)
6 Fri
Saturday is the new concept of a rest day.
Sunday does not feel complete unless I've done at least 15 miles.
15 and 17, thats how old his kids are!
Just wish I could run to work - but it's about 16 miles each way!
Take your running clobber in a bag, get changed in the toilets then run home. It's a nice experience running past people stuck in their car in a traffic jam.
Unless of course you have to travel on a motorway in which case plan B.
Oops sorry, no plan B.
Probaly best to get changed at work first though. I did once suprise a dog walker who wasn't expecting to see a lone, naked woman in a car ...