Start with recent reality
Use several normal weeks, not your single largest week, as the baseline. If a template opens far above it, add base weeks or select a different plan. Training history, pace, age, injury history, terrain, and available recovery all change the useful number.
The B.A.A. novice plan illustrates one real structure: about four running days, an opening near 25 weekly miles, peak weeks near 40, and long runs up to 16–18 miles.
Inspect the shape of the week
- Does most running remain easy enough to repeat?
- Is the long run supported by other regular runs?
- Are demanding sessions separated?
- Can sleep, appetite, work, and ordinary movement remain normal?
- Do lighter weeks appear before fatigue becomes a crisis?
Increase the smallest useful amount
No percentage rule guarantees safety. Add only enough duration or distance to create the intended training change, and hold or reduce when recovery falls behind. Do not increase mileage, intensity, long-run distance, and strength load simultaneously.
Mileage is not the finish line
Race execution also requires goal-effort practice, fueling, hydration, hills or descents when course-relevant, and the ability to run patiently in a crowd. A large total does not automatically provide those skills.
Keep the ordinary weeks moving
Run More! You can do it!
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