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I wouldn’t count on 15 miles a week at your zone 2 level to really keep your fitness level if planning this for multiple months. Or maybe it does by seems it would delay any progress you’ve made in past 6 months. Why wouldn’t you at minimum keep one day of tempo. Otherwise I think you might be disappointed when you try to work speed back in several months from now whenfall races start up.
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15 miles a Mp two weeks out may be heavy at this point. I don’t see anything wrong with 10 especially if you’re running 13 already. 1.5 warm 10 mp 1.5 cool

My general thought is people want to run a particular race distance and set PR but don’t train specific for that distance . Especially less experienced runners.

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Posted by BaddestAndvari

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Posted on 4/8/24 at 5:02 pm to ks_nola

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My general thought is people want to run a particular race distance and set PR but don’t train specific for that distance . Especially less experienced runners

So a few things... I know I'm training for the correct distance, my normal week looks like this:

Tue: 6-8 miles Intervals (1m wu > 4-6 Miles of some kind of vo2 Max workout > 1m CD)
Wed: 8-12 miles zone 2
Thur: Depending on Long run for the week 6-7 Half Marathon workout (1m wu > 4-5m Tempo > 1m CD) or 8-9 miles all marathon pace

Saturday: 16-22 miles (with at least 1 mile marathon pace)
Sunday: 5-6 mile recover

Been averaging 45-51 miles a week for 2 months now and easily getting to the 20% workout threshold.

I honestly just get in my own head sometimes, like going out today and doing intervals on a 5th day instead of just letting me body rest

ETA: This is all the while of last marathon doing 30-40 miles a week and dropping marathon pace workouts and half marathon workouts down 30 seconds a min/mi and increasing my 1 mile, 5k, and 10k times down their respective amount using the vo.2 calculator

ETAA: even with all of that, I'm not even really training for a PR, because the Rock 'n Roll Nashville course is straight trash haha, I probably will, but I'm just going out to finish my third marathon and try to have fun

ETAA: as an example, I did this run after an interval workout on Tuesday and an easy run on Wednesday and both added up to 17 miles, then on Thursday I:

Reminder, my marathon PR is 8:36/min/mi

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Posted by BaddestAndvari

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Posted on 4/8/24 at 5:31 pm to ks_nola

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Why wouldn’t you at minimum keep one day of tempo

So on a separate note to the above, Pedro you l might have a good opinion as well:

After April 27 I'm done with "training" until late July and want to really try to get my vo2 Max higher... would it be a bad idea to move to more short interval stuff for awhile trying to get my vo2 Max up?

My training for the 100 miler starts in late July, but I feel like a better vo2 could greatly help me more than endurance distances over the next 3 months?

(Clarity: I'm thinking decreasing my 2nd day distance a good bit and doing 2 vo2 Max workouts a week instead of 1 + marathon / tempo stuff)

I would still do 10-15m long runs a week

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Posted by BaddestAndvari

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Posted on 4/12/24 at 12:43 pm to ks_nola

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I don’t see anything wrong with 10 especially if you’re running 13 already. 1.5 warm 10 mp 1.5 cool

Ok, I just did it and was able to pull it off:

Yay? But now the real question... my heart rate is concerning me, should it?

Like that heart rate isn't sustainable for 26 miles... or should I take heart rate data this late in my training cycle with a grain of salt because my body is beaten up so much?

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