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How I’ve Run 80 Miles a Week For Eight Straight Weeks
Prioritizing consistency over intensity or time
I have run 80 miles a week for the past eight weeks, all of which while being a special education teacher and recently becoming a lawyer. This has been my big process goal for my marathon running — I want to run 80 miles every week for half a year, hopefully through the summer, to get better as a marathoner.
But I did not get here overnight. I have been a long-distance runner for the last 16 years now. I have long just followed the process and blindly followed what my coaches said to do in high school and college, but now, I have had to find my own way as an independent runner.
When I started training on my own as an adult several years ago, I would run when I felt like it. I would treat running as a hobby, and took a step back from running as I attended more to my job and personal life.
But I still wanted to run well and run fast. I did run fast in some events, but these were sometimes far and in between. I would execute well on given days, and there were days where the conditions allowed for running fast, but in hindsight, I would…
