When thoughts wander to training for a longer event, getting up around a 100 miles feels like the goal per week. When pain was discovered during competition many years ago, it seemed the better trained one was the farther this pain could be stretched out and at times minimized. Recovery was a bonus as well. This is the thinking. A constant barage. That's over 20 hours a week of strolling and shuffling.
In the past, doubles made the goal much easier. The issue now is there is still much other volume on the living life side. The wife has grown accustomed to my daily efforts. But she is always at home now. It becomes selfish at some point to claim how busy you are yet you are willing to train up to 3 hours a day? No explanation needed.
This leaves a storm the gate at the crack of stupid mentality. The Baron von Sinister, I'll control the world with my weather machine look at total training dominance. Can one get close on singles? Mostly at 12-13 minute mile pace or slower? If a person did 2 hours M-F and 5 and 4 hours S-S then this would yield around 85 a week.
Look, this guy understands there are many ways to parse this up and find a much better schedule to not only run faster and farther on less time, but understanding the mastering of the time continuum along with balancing some unpleasantness is what the goal is. If mistakes are to be made then it is going to be from the he over did it camp.
