Hey everyone. Welcome to today's episode of the Run to the Top Edge Kick daily podcast. I am your host, one of the coaches here at Runers Connect,

Haley Month and it is great to chat to you guys today.

I hope you're all having a fabulous week, whatever you've been up to. I hope your running is going well and you're free from injury.

So that leads me onto you what I want to talk to

about today and that is how can I safely increase my mileage? Now that was the question

I got from one of the athletes that I've recently

started coaching. The athlete in question just struggled to get past around 20

miles a week. She thought that improving this and

building her mileage little would really lead to increased performance

but she just couldn't get there whether it was because she got niggles or she just found it hard to keep up the quality of training

when she increased the mileage. She was just struggling with that. So I gave her some tips on how to safely

increase her mileage and I'm going to share those with you just in case that's an

issue that you're having.

Firstly, you need to think about why you're trying to build mileage and

whether it will actually be something that will help you.

In her case, she had quite a lot of time to train. She had

been running the same mileage for a long

time, and she wanted to move towards the longer distances,

so it made sense.

But it doesn't actually make sense for everyone.

Increasing mileage is a way that runners can improve that endurance and performance and

it has been shown that in general the runners who run more mileage are faster but that's

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