Building for peak mileage

The recovery week after the 56 km long run is over. It made me sleep long on Saturday and Sunday and miss the Monday run.

Today I wanted to get out the door and did and felt very strong over ~8 km: run 1 of building to the longest week of my Comrades training this year.

Given my average of 50 km a week so far this year, 70 km over 7 days should be about the maximum.

I might just shoot for 80 km by doing my long run on a Sunday and the next long run on the following Saturday, giving me a good base for doing 80 km in 7 days. I have already done 77 km that way before Two Oceans, so 80 km is not that much more. [You see the hold these numbers have one me. But I have to watch that I don’t do too much]

The thing about an 80 km week is that it’s not too far from 89 km- the Comrades distance. There is an old running adage: if you can run it in a week you can run it in a day. So its a nice aim.

89 km would be a big confidence boost but is lots more than 70 km.

I’ll see how it goes. I don’t want to ruin my training by doing too much.