Running Mileage Matters Most in Your Training

The adage that mileage matters most does apply to all running and especially for event specific terrain. A study from previous podcast guest, Beat, Connectly, the data showed that weekly training distance is a significant predictor of ultra marathon performance. The only sport that really differed was cross country skiing where the training intensity distribution was more polarized. There are three general approaches to increasing your weekly mileage then. One, run further on some or all runs.