Quote Originally Posted by alpinerabbit View Post
Can you elaborate on that? How does that work?
I'll see if I can actually find some research on this but in the meanwhile, there are loads of elite runners that do split workouts to get the mileage in while at the same time allowing a little recovering in between the workouts. For eg they'll run 1 hour in the AM and 1 hour a little later in the day. That might allow a good runner 16 to 20 miles in a day so they build up their endurance base and yet their muscles get a little recovery and that allows them to hold better form through their runs and they claim it causes less joint stress and prevents injury. These runners win a lot of races so I don't doubt that it works. I'm just not sure if the injury prevention thing is true. BTW - the elite runners that I am referring to are hitting 60 mile weeks pretty consistently.