Maybe there is a different way I should approach this question. I've mostly been using the barryP plan for my run training the last year. First year in a long time that I've stayed injury free. I'm doing 30 mpw currently and doing 1 tempo run a week. I know that most of the rationale behind barryp method is to get faster through more miles (high percentage of easy miles) instead of wearing your body down and risking injury by doing a lot of hard runs. So maybe, given that, the answer to my question is to simply keep increasing my miles.
Anyway, the thing one hears the most about increasing miles is increase 10% at a time at most. I was wondering what a similar % increase in pace for hard runs would be if I wanted to stay at 30 mpw.
Basically, I looked at McMillan and Daniels calculators, based on previous races, to see what pace I should currently be doing my threshold workouts and then I put in my goal race time to see what my threshold workout pace would be if I was currently able to run that goal race pace.
My plan was to stay at my current miles per week and slowly increase the pace of my threshold runs till I got to where I was running my threshold runs at the goal pace for, per those calculators, what I should be training at to be capable of running my goal race time.
10% and 5% increase in pace looked too drastic and 1% looked too slow of an increase and 2% increase looked like a more reasonable rate. To clarify, I mean 2% increase in threshold run pace per month not per week (don't want to increase training speed too quick and risk injury).
So, anybody try to increase their running and thus their speed, this way by increasing training spead incrementally instead of increasing miles and if so how fast did you increase your training pace. Also, this is in reference to training for a half-marathon.
Anyway, the thing one hears the most about increasing miles is increase 10% at a time at most. I was wondering what a similar % increase in pace for hard runs would be if I wanted to stay at 30 mpw.
Basically, I looked at McMillan and Daniels calculators, based on previous races, to see what pace I should currently be doing my threshold workouts and then I put in my goal race time to see what my threshold workout pace would be if I was currently able to run that goal race pace.
My plan was to stay at my current miles per week and slowly increase the pace of my threshold runs till I got to where I was running my threshold runs at the goal pace for, per those calculators, what I should be training at to be capable of running my goal race time.
10% and 5% increase in pace looked too drastic and 1% looked too slow of an increase and 2% increase looked like a more reasonable rate. To clarify, I mean 2% increase in threshold run pace per month not per week (don't want to increase training speed too quick and risk injury).
So, anybody try to increase their running and thus their speed, this way by increasing training spead incrementally instead of increasing miles and if so how fast did you increase your training pace. Also, this is in reference to training for a half-marathon.
