![]() ![]() I get most of my mileage in on the weekends with a combination of long sets of short hill repeats and an incline treadmill. Of course all I’ve done so far myself is fail, and this could also be me trying to justify the fact that I don’t live in the mountains and the only way I have time to train on weekdays is to run to/from work on a relatively flat route. Your body needs to be able to take the mileage, and your VO2max and lactate threshold have to remain high enough so that you’re not bumping into them when you do run (if you want to have a chance, you have to run whenever there’s an opportunity) or when you’re going up Rat Jaw with a full pack in hot temperatures.īarkley has so many different physical demands, that I fear focusing on a single area is likely to result in failure. ![]() This could be debated ad nauseam, and there are too few datapoints from finishers to draw any real conclusions, but I believe that you have to do a significant amount of running and have some amount of high intensity work as well. I think that over the year’s the pendulum has swung so far towards just focusing on elevation and nothing else that a lot of people spend their training hiking / walking up and down hills without any actual running. I also take a bit of a different approach to it, in that I do place a priority on mileage and intensity in addition to elevation. My training has evolved over the years, from 2015 when I had no idea what I was doing and just ran every hill I could find all the time at any time of day no matter the impact to personal life, to this year when I had a very set routine and fit my training around family and job rather than vice versa. One of the first questions I normally get asked when people find out I’ve done / am doing the Barkley Marathons, is how I train for something like that.
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