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Alan T · 10-09-2013, 09:27 AM

One thing that most people seem to state is until you get past 20-25 miles per week regularly every week, adding in speed work won't be as good of a bang for your buck. Doing intervals and hills and such will help, and can be fun, but until you up your base mileage, there are two proven ways for the quicker improvements:

1) Lose weight
2) Run more miles

Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to discourage you from doing the speed work. Just trying to say that in some cases, such as this one might be, running slower but more miles might help more than the speed work right now. The key thing to adding the miles is that you just want to do it responsibly. Don't add too many at once, and make sure to take it easy to keep your energy levels up enough to finish the miles that you want.

10-09-2013, 09:27 AM	#73
Alan T Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mass.	One thing that most people seem to state is until you get past 20-25 miles per week regularly every week, adding in speed work won't be as good of a bang for your buck. Doing intervals and hills and such will help, and can be fun, but until you up your base mileage, there are two proven ways for the quicker improvements: 1) Lose weight 2) Run more miles Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to discourage you from doing the speed work. Just trying to say that in some cases, such as this one might be, running slower but more miles might help more than the speed work right now. The key thing to adding the miles is that you just want to do it responsibly. Don't add too many at once, and make sure to take it easy to keep your energy levels up enough to finish the miles that you want. __________________ Couch to ??k - From the couch to a Marathon in roughly 18 months.