I ve finally built up to around a 100 miles a week which usually includes morning runs 3 to 4 days a week of 8 to 10 miles. Usually, that involves some type of threshold or speed work on Mondays and Wednesdays. The type of speed work has been anything from 400 to two-mile repeats depending on the point in the season or what race distance I m focusing on. It is really nice during the school year because I can do almost all speed work with the team, but it gets rough during the summer. It is honestly pretty meager.
Somebody has to step up or help out financially.
It is kind of sad seeing guys who are running awesome still not being picked up by any major sponsors. Unfortunately, I think some of that kind of shines on running clubs, in which a majority of which are becoming somewhat anti-competitive. Instead of having a group to burn some hard workouts on the track with or hammer some thresholds, many running clubs only get together anymore to go on an easy 5 miler. I think that there are some groups currently taking things in the right direction such as the Hanson s Team in Michigan or the new program started by Fila. You just need to get an ambitious group of individual together pushing each other towards their dreams.