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The way that I understand it, your gains are only as good as your ability to recover from your training. As icy said, if you overtrain or try to do too much too soon, not only do you not receive optimal results but you also increase your chance of injury.
I have been trying to slowly increase my weekly mileage by about 1/2 a mile approximately per week over the past few months, but this is also why a lot of training programs recommend for newer runners (including myself) to do the majority if not all of your miles at an easy pace or a pace that you could have a conversation at. Just by putting in more time your fitness level will improve and thus your speed and duration.
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Couch to ??k - From the couch to a Marathon in roughly 18 months.
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