It's interesting to me, that when I was planning out my running schedule for my training for the LA Marathon, I had grand designs to run up to 70 mile weeks. Keep in mind, that when I started this running focus, I was completing around 15 miles/week and started running 6 days/week and upping the weekly total by a maxium of 10% a week. Five months lather, I'm up to around 50 to 55 miles/week, and running became decidedly less fun. Waking up dreading the run and trying to cram in 10 miles before work really sucked. Especially with the recent snowfall my area has received, thoughts of hitting the treadmill for 16.5 miles (which I dutifully completed) really wasn't the cherry on my once joyful sundae of exercise.
Yep, terrible analogy.
Anyways, to maintain my sanity, I dialed back my 55 mile week to ~50 miles and changed my expectations on achieving a 70 mile week. To achieve my long runs, I decided to move miles from my short and mid distance runs to my long runs so that I wouldn't be beating up my body as much. I fully believe that if I had more time, my body would be able to handle 70 mile weeks and recover well enough that I could enjoy running the next week, but as of right now, 50 miles/week seems to be the limit between loving running and unconditional hatred towards it
Let's see how that works out!
By the by, getting back into running after a long weekend of snowboarding is rough. Really rough!
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