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This is not the log of each workout I do, but rather a higher level summary of what's happening with my training overall. For a detailed log, I use [[SportTracks]] and publish to [[Dailymile]] at http://www.dailymile.com/people/JonathanS.
==August 2011==
August continued my experiment with running every day rather than four days per week, which pushed my mileage to a new high. My peak week was 186 miles, running 27 miles for 6 consecutive days. I found that nutrition and recovery becomes critical with this amount of exercise. I'm in the process of writing a page for 'GOMAD grazing', the technique I've found helped me with the higher mileage and I believe would be effective for other runners.
I'm not sure if this high mileage approach to training is more effective than training four days per week or not. I'm a lot fitter and faster now than I was when I started, but I've also lost 13 pounds and been doing quite a bit of altitude training with the [[AltoLab]]. I'd like to think that this type of high mileage would change fast twitch muscle fibers into slow twitch, but there seems to be little evidence for that. Running 180+ miles per week and holding down a full time job puts huge logistical and psychological pressures in addition to the obvious physical strain. In many ways, my body handled the high mileage far better than my mind did.
{| {{table}}
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Miles'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Hours'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Avg Pace'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Num Runs'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Longest'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Avg Miles'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Descent (feet)'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Cycling Miles'''
|-
| August 2011||614||82||7:59||30||27||20||13,300||0
|-
| July 2011||529||71||8:07||27||27||19||13,700||4
|-
| August 2010||435||58||8:00||19||33||23||2,300||0
|}
==July 2011==
July was an interesting month for me.
