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What's your weekly mileage? (lemmy.today)
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Just curious. If you're training for a race, what's your weekly mileage like, and what distance are you training for? I'm stuck around 20 mpw right now because life, kind of want to live vicariously through other runners. Hoping to eventually get back to ultras, but probably won't have time to run enough for that for at least a year or two.

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

The burnout at the end of a long training block is real. How are you feeling about 100 on that mileage? My longest has been 50 miles and did that on about 50 a week.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Cardiovascularly I'm confident I'll be fine. It's 40 mpw plus about 3h on the bike per week. My primary concern is when my legs will start hurting due to time on feet and the course itself is moderately technical. My best guess is that I'll feel good until about mile 70 then it will be an exercise in survival.

    I've done about 17 ultras (16 of those are 100k races and one 100 miler previously, but that race was about 6 years ago so I had "youth" on my side).

    I'm less concerned about finishing - aiming to finish in around 25h, but we will see. I'll honestly be happy with a finish.

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