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Shmow [M@4-21]
Runners: how many miles have you done this week?

I've logged in 47 miles. Almost time for cross country season to start for me in college
>> Anonymous
you're mom goes to college
>> Anonymous
>>301468

yours didn't and you didn't either.
>> Anonymous
11... got sick, but still doing my daily minimum of 2 because I feel like a lardo if I'm not burning up like an oven at least once a day.
>> Anonymous
XC fag here... I've only done 43... I'll probably go out for some intervals on the track tomorrow, or maybe a fast 5k...
>> Anonymous
Holy fuck, did XC runners really run this much? Most I ever ran in a time was 100 miles over the span of 3 weeks and I thought I was crazy, training for a marathon and all.

Is it really necessary to run so much to train for XC? I can run a 5k in 16 minutes pretty easy and all I do is a hard (efforted) 2-3 miles a day. Is so much practice really that important?
>> Anonymous
>>301781

Yeah anon, practice is important. It's a goddamn sport 'brah.
>> Anonymous
I have done 30 I use to be an XC fag a while back got an injury and can no longer XC FAG it up.
=(
>> Anonymous
>>301822
Isn't that amount really excessive though? Wouldn't you be better off doing SQUATZ every once in a while, and maybe 10 miles a week? I mean shit bro, overtraining is serious business and there's much quicker ways to get your speed and stamina up there to winning levels.
>> Anonymous
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>>301839

>>there's much quicker ways to get your speed and stamina up there to winning levels.

Really? That's probably what that guy thought.
>> Anonymous
>>301879
WHAT THE FUCK
BACKSTORY!?!
>> Anonymous
>>301879
As someone who ran 3 miles a day to lose loads of weight for a summer, and continued to run miles and miles a day every day for years after... I can tell you I never got faster even at a sustained weight by running sore every day, or even running healed. I only got faster with my own crazy rendition HIIT which maxed out my leg and ab muscles beyond comfort for a short time in training leaving me sore for days after. After that blew over and I healed, my natural stride was instantly 9 mph from that point on, comfortably. Running excessively won't make you faster, it'll just give you a false sense of getting better because you've done more.
>> Anonymous
>>301893

You do get better. Training isn't just going out there and running till you're blind. The schedule is a combo of long runs, intervals, fartleks and sometimes tempo runs. The intervals help you get faster as it happened to you and your insane rendition of HIIT. The long runs help you with endurance. The fartleks and tempo runs help you deal with the stress of maintaining a fast pace. 9mph isn't bad, but if you want to compete and keep a fast pace out on the trails then you need to pile on the miles.
>> Anonymous
>>301932
The way I've experienced it, once you break down limitations in endurance/stamina, you don't have to do it again. I once ran a few marathons and stopped because shit's boring and takes too long. But a year later, every now and then I can go for 12 straight miles just because I feel like it, and out of months and months of either doing 2 or no miles a day, it's just as easy and much longer distances are possible.

So for me anyways, I don't get this whole training by running 50 miles a week thing. For me, I see gaining leg muscle as a much larger priority, because that's what's really going to enable you to run harder longer than just pumping glycogen in and out of your leg muscles every day you go run 6 or 7 miles straight.
>> Anonymous
>>301879
Might I ask what happened?
>> Shmow [M@4-21]
As people have said before, it's not just gaining miles it's strengthening the muscles for later races and everything and make everything faster.
Not only do I do 8 -14 mile runs a day but in those workouts I do different things everytime like hills, straightaways and downhills every now and then.
>> Anonymous
About 12+/-. But I just got into running at the beginning of the month. I think I'm making good progress for a novice. I've been jogging 5k's every workout, and lately I don't feel tired at all afterwards (though I always hate the actual experience), so I guess it's time to up my intensity/speed.
>> Anonymous
I saw a thread on /fit/ saying to run as far as you can and then take a 30 second break and walk back home. Anyone ever try this? I'm kind of tempted to...I can run 2-3 miles pretty easy, but I don't usually go over that.
>> Anonymous
>>302040


that sounds like a really really softcore crossfit thing

or, like, run as fast and as far as you can with two kettlebells, do 20 swings and 50 suitcase squats, then jog back
dude, i could totally write crossfit routines
>> CrossFag !!pYkN8+/vJA9
>>302078
The hard part is doing them.
>> Anonymous
>>302040

if we're talking jogging and not sprinting that's gonna be a longass walk home
>> Anonymous
>>302078
Let me try.....

Infinity pull-ups for time

Post time to comments.

I'll make millions.
>> Anonymous
5-10 cause I'm not a pussy and do HIIT.
>> Anonymous
>>302078

I don't really know what you mean by that..\\
>>302623

That's the only thing that sucks about it. Even if I ran just 6 miles, that would take around 40 minutes...then the walk back would take another hour and 30 minutes or so....Lot of time spent...
>> Anonymous
I've done about 12. Not a lot, I know.

Novice runner here. What's the best way to train for 800m/1500m?
>> Anonymous
I'm not much of a runner, is there a good way to start or is just getting out there and doing it the best way? What I mean is, should I set a certain distance and run it as much as I can and walk the rest..or run as far as I can andthat's it..or what?
>> JESUS !vBOFA0jTOg
8 miles. >_>