damon.lebeouf wrote:
i prob should have posted initially what my current running is looking like. i run 80/20 endurance plans, currently on my 4th round of 70.3. i feel the only thing their plans lack is some run volume, so i up the mileage from what they prescribe. their plans typically have 4 runs a week, and doing the higher volume 70.3 plans, the most i think i remember seeing is around 28 or so miles week. i may be wrong on that but its not as much as i want.
im currently up to around 34 miles / week or so by upping Z1 mileage on top of what the runs already have and adding in one or two slow paced 3 mile runs. long run day i always shoot for a 13.1 run because i like the idea of running a half mostly every week (unless its an easy week, which ill just do the prescribed easy volume) but also to add in a few more miles to get the weekly total up.
I have added run miles to the 80/20 plan that I'm on. I just tack on easy Z1 miles either to the end of the LR (preferred) which is 90 minutes in my case, or during the week. As I mentioned before, the z1 miles tacked on the LR amplify the endurance effect. (I wouldn't take on those miles in a marathon training plan where the LR is a lot longer, like 20 miles, and I'd also think twice if the LR was 2+hrs already.)
But no problem adding them either way - they aren't the critical miles, it's obviously the quality ones that are driving the progress. The Z1 miles added at the end of a LR are surprisingly hard though, if you're hitting the paces/effort recommended in the latter end of the plan. If done 10:00+/mile on them after running the LR at 7:30/mi pace.