Lord of the Rings perhaps but I spend enough time separating the boys with their wrestling and horsing around.

 

Yeah, here was last night's fun. Morning 5k to get started,  rouse kids (while still in running clothes) and get them off to school, typical workday but can't run at lunch (no shower or place), get home and head to soccer meeting, go directly from there to band concert, head home to finish helping with homework, hit the treadmill at 9 for an hour and work on a project until midnight. Rinse, reapply and repeat. DAMN!

Don't you wish you could just run all your miles on the weekend?? I'll bet that schedule is even busier tho.

Don't you wish you could just run all your miles on the weekend?? I'll bet that schedule is even busier tho.

Well now that brings me to an interesting question for the group. I was thinking about this while on the TM last night. The old standard is your long run should be no longer than 25% (I think) of your overall miles. If I recall correctly this more of a ROT to prevent injury.

But what if you were able to run 50% of the miles on the weekend in one long run and one workout. So for a 60 mile week, I'm looking at a 15-20 miler easy and a 10-15 miler as a workout. The other 5 days are 6mpd which is one hour and easily fit into the schedule and one of those can be a workout on Wed.

Thoughts. Comments. Laughs.

Bring it.

MTA: After my few years of running 55-65 mpw seems to be my sweet spot. I know I could do better on 70+ but really don't know where to find the time.

Help at all?

It does. Thank you.

C-R, I found it "easy" to get in some stretching, core work, ect. while watching tv. Part of me wishes there was an easy way to do plyometrics. But, I really hate doing it. 

One strategy for ultras/marathons is back-to-back workout days, or a long run one day followed by a mid-long the next.  The purpose is to re-create the fatigue feeling of the longer distances without having to do one huge long run...or, in combination with careful diet, to induce glycogen depletion and increase ability to metabolize fat.

 

I'm not sure I'd recommend it every single weekend, but it's not like the idea does not have precedent in training literature.  I've done "big weekends" here and there when the opportunity has arisen.

Yep, it's not unusual for some ultra runners to knock out 50 miles on the weekend.  That said, it is still usually less than half their weekly mileage.  If you are training for an ultra it may be a good thing once or twice a month, but if you are not, it may hurt more than help in shorter races.

I don't know about the fat burning/glycogen depletion thing.  Seems like lately there is some controversy over this.  My first 50 I felt like I really struggled with ingesting carbs because I got used to running on low glycogen.  I think this may be a YMMV.

 but I recently read an interview with Trent Briney. 

This article?

...I think the true test of ultra training will be with back to back long runs on two straight days when I prep for a future 100 miler. I am running 70 to 90 miles per week with two workout days a week, a 2 to 4 hour long run day, and sometimes a second weekly 2 to 3 hour run. Usually one of the days will be a hill day which helps my running economy and power regardless of racing distance or type of race. As I am now 20 years into being a runner, I try to be flexible with my training a bit using cross-training, weight lifting and other outdoor activities to keep things fun and my fitness high. With regards to the running, variation and consistency are necessary for me perform at a high level....

I finally can post something about a workout. 14.5.@ 8:13 in the drizzle. Felt good. Felt hard. Felt like Tecumseh was just a bad day and these legs still have some geezer pop. Will do a shakeout tonight and hit another long one in the morning.

Tomorrow I start back. The last couple weeks has made me realize how stupid it was for me to even line up at Tecumseh. Oh well, I had a good time, and that's what it's about.