I'm scheduling out my 1st marathon program into Philly & want to try & get back to or near 1 or 2 100 mile weeks before the race. It's been about 2 years since I've hit those #'s due to a few things including injury.
If I do a 15% increase per week before my taper, I'll hit it a few times. Is this woo much or should I stick with the 10% rule and end up hitting between 80-90?
"TOO AGGRESSIVE" is the very least of your worries. 98% of all runners are NOT AGGRESSIVE ENOUGH! They run but they do not race. Kenyans race! Ethiopeans race! Americans run :-(
What does your build look like so far since the injury?
I've been doing about a 10% increase per week for the past 4 months and am now around 50-55 miles per week.
I'll be running Philly as well. You better step it up, 15% is pretty weak. I'll be doing 20% increases, and you know ill beat you come race day.
At 24 I went from a few miles a week at the beginning of August to 100 weeks and a 2:52 marathon on December 1. I was a mediocre (at best) HS runner that could barely make the JV top 7 until the last meet of my senior year.
The 10% rule is a 'Runner's World' rule aimed at general runners, not talented, natural runners who can be more aggressive. It also depends on how fast you are running; I was not doing much speed work, running most of my stuff around 6:30-7:00.
So you were doing 100 mile weeks 'running most of your stuff' essentially at marathon pace? Sounds like a fantastic training program that's a prescription for injury. I call bullsh#t on this one.
26mi235 wrote:
At 24 I went from a few miles a week at the beginning of August to 100 weeks and a 2:52 marathon on December 1. I was a mediocre (at best) HS runner that could barely make the JV top 7 until the last meet of my senior year.
The 10% rule is a 'Runner's World' rule aimed at general runners, not talented, natural runners who can be more aggressive. It also depends on how fast you are running; I was not doing much speed work, running most of my stuff around 6:30-7:00.
Try this:
http://www.bunnhill.com/BobHodge/Special/Lydiard.htm
...a prescription for 0 to 100 miles in nine weeks.
(It also sounds like a prescription for injury.)