runfearless wrote:
And I would add that until you try high mileage doing ALL the right things, you can't say "people get hurt with volume"--that's "COMPLETE BS". You get the pace right, form right, nutrition and sleep right, you can do it, AND unless you've done that and made sure all those factors are close to perfect you can't say bs.
I think there are big differences in the amount of mileage people can handle. Don't know much about guys, but I know girls who get too skinny when they do high mileage. Know an elite woman who doesn't do more than 50mpw because when she goes higher, she loses too much weight and breaks down. I am not naturally skinny and I'd be slow as balls on 50mpw, but I've been gradually adding mileage and paying attention to all of the small things and I think I'll be at 100mpw in a few years.
But injury still happens. And some people are more resilient than others. The ability to withstand difficult training without breaking down is one facet of talent. Nutrition, sleep, taking easy runs easy, form, range of motion, strength training for injury prevention - those things all help, but you can do all of those things and still be SOL and get hurt. And that will happen more to some people than others.
With that said I think for some reason a lot of American dudes have this phobia of going over 100mpw, like it's this magic number above which they're going to break down and die, which is kind of silly and arbitrary.