Yeah, I am trying to figure out just how I would get 200-300 miles in one month. Hell, next year I probably won't have a month near 200 miles, sadly during the week I can only manage 7-8 miles in the morning before work, I would have to get up at 4 a.m if I wanted to run longer than 9 miles (which I plan on). It's just crazy to imagine, I mean maybe if some runs are cut in half, like 5 or 7 miles in the morning and then 7 or 8 miles in the evening to add up to 13-15 miles for one day everyday then I could see it.

If you can average 8 miles, 6 days a week, that will get you to 200. Also being able to go longer on the weekend helps.

300 is another world for me, no advice on that one.

 

If you can average 8 miles, 6 days a week, that will get you to 200. Also being able to go longer on the weekend helps.

300 is another world for me, no advice on that one.

To me that's just nutz.  I enjoy too many other outdoorsy things to get wrapped up in running six days a week.  Hike 8-10 miles and then run another 8?  That's crazy talk.  But that's just my opinion.  Everybody's different!!

Next year I plan on adding a 5th day to my running, then changing Wednesday morning's to my mid-long run  with hopes of reaching 9-10 miles, with maybe an easy/recovery of 3-4 miles in the evening. I also plan on reaching 15 miles for my weekend long runs by the end of 2014. I think you can view my training plan (warning: I am converting to trails with most of my runs - me loves trails).

I did actually take a quick look at it, but I'm not the one you want reviewing training plans, because I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

But I will tell you that I was able to get up to 50mpw (for a brief period at the peak of marathon training) on only 5 days/wk, I have never gotten up to 6 days. It was basically T-W-Th 7-9 miles, Sat 8-10, Sun 16-20. If you are training for HM's rather than fulls, you don't need to worry about LR's that long (or really about 200 mile months in general). Looks like you plan to get into the 40's which should be good for HM's. Still an aggressive goal vs the mid-20s you appear to be doing now. I will also tell you, again from the n00b perspective - I saw a significant increase in racing speed, without actually running faster training paces, just from increasing mileage volume.

 

I did actually take a quick look at it, but I'm not the one you want reviewing training plans, because I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

But I will tell you that I was able to get up to 50mpw (for a brief period at the peak of marathon training) on only 5 days/wk, I have never gotten up to 6 days. It was basically T-W-Th 7-9 miles, Sat 8-10, Sun 16-20. If you are training for HM's rather than fulls, you don't need to worry about LR's that long (or really about 200 mile months in general). Looks like you plan to get into the 40's which should be good for HM's. Still an aggressive goal vs the mid-20s you appear to be doing now. I will also tell you, again from the n00b perspective - I saw a significant increase in racing speed, without actually running faster training paces, just from increasing mileage volume.

Your races or mine?

188.9 - one of my higher months this year, including higher than my summer of training for a marathon. Which says more about how poor my summer was, than how good this month was.

I've hit 300 once during a challenge on RWOL BF - that was a seriously long month.

I was hoping not

 

Ha. Mine. I have not been stalking your training log & race results that closely.

115.8 miles, making October the 11th consecutive month I've hit triple digits.

I'd like to keep the streak going, but November will have a taper and at least a bit of recovery (aka laziness after my goal race).