RunningAHEAD - Topic: What is the best running program for training for 10K or 5 mile run?

stolf1

posted: 4/21/2009 at 6:01 PM

Is the Smart Coach the best program to use or is there another program you guys use as a guide to train. I log between 16-20 miles per week? I'm trainnig for a 10K and 5 mile run.

Berner

posted: 4/21/2009 at 6:05 PM

How To Run a Marathon: Step 1 - start running. There is no Step 2.

ChupChup

posted: 4/21/2009 at 7:07 PM

What are the parameters for "best"? Might help folks give specific and helpful answers. Smile

mikeymike

posted: 4/21/2009 at 8:38 PM
modified: 4/21/2009 at 8:39 PM

For someone running 16-20 miles per week, the best program is just running more. Double your mileage, hell triple it. Quadruple it even. That will do more to improve your 5 mile and 10k time than any program you can find.

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AmoresPerros

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posted: 4/21/2009 at 8:45 PM

Of course, you don't have to quadruple it the first week...

It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.

dnephin

posted: 4/21/2009 at 8:48 PM

Perhaps not quadruple immediately, but yes, run more. There are no shortcuts.

DWARP
Marathon Madness Mob

xor

posted: 4/21/2009 at 9:01 PM

Quote from dnephin on 4/21/2009 at 8:48 PM:

Perhaps not quadruple immediately, but yes, run more. There are no shortcuts.

Unless you are running DIPSEA, where the shortcut is encouraged. stolf1 - yes, what they said. Add more miles. Over time.

Mr Inertia

Suspect Zero

posted: 4/22/2009 at 7:06 AM

Already been said several times but I'll iterate it because it's important - run more miles, as many as you can handle.

MrFinn

Prince of Fatness

posted: 4/22/2009 at 7:37 AM

Quote from mikeymike on 4/21/2009 at 8:38 PM:

For someone running 16-20 miles per week, the best program is just running more. Double your mileage, hell triple it. Quadruple it even. That will do more to improve your 5 mile and 10k time than any program you can find.

Yep. I ran a 1 minute PR in a 5 miler last spring, running 5 consecutive sub 7 minute miles for the first time ever. I did not run even one sub 7 mile in the 4 months of training leading up to the race. What I did is run 10-20 miles per week more than I ever did consistently over that time period. Run more miles.

Not at it at all.

Berner

posted: 4/23/2009 at 11:31 AM
modified: 4/23/2009 at 11:31 AM

If the question was "What single thing can I do to best improve my 10K or 5 mile race time?" then I agree with the previous 84 posters in this thread. Run more. However, if the question truly was "What is the best running program for training for 10K or 5 mile run?" then I reiterate post #2. If for some reason you are unable to increase your mileage, and/or simply want to get the most out of the miles that you are running, Pfitzinger's book has a 10K training plan that peaks at less than 25 miles/week. It may or may not be the "best" 10K training program, but a lot of people think that Pfitzinger knows what he's doing.

How To Run a Marathon: Step 1 - start running. There is no Step 2.

JimR

posted: 4/23/2009 at 1:50 PM
modified: 4/23/2009 at 2:08 PM

We don't need no stinking programs. Run more.

Ringmaster

posted: 4/23/2009 at 2:14 PM

I got a PR in my shorter races coming off a long training season for my half marathon. So, yes, by running more, I lowered my 10k time. I was doing everything geared toward the long distance--long runs of 14, 16, 18 miles--no short intervals, almost exclusively mile repeats, and my tempo runs at half marathon pace. Yet it still translated into much lower short-race times. So they're right. Run more, and the improvement will come. Course, making your log public would help these longtime runners (I'm a rookie) give you specific advice, if they had any.

Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. (Heb. 12:1b)
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