Learn how to Love Running Using the Mile High Run Club

does a Jerry mile mean that on non-workout days you are allowed to run at a true 8-minute pace if that’s what your body needs to recover?

in 3+ mins, i learned more about this Hannah person’s life than i cared to hear about…..i tuned in to hear more about the Mile High Running Club and Hannah failed miserably in highlighting that. Thank God there are more videos about the Club that i will watch.

I think concept seems really interesting and follows the same trend as cycling clubs. However, the interview was incredibly awkward to watch and listen to.

it feels amazing those last few meters when your tired but sprint to finish it. and at the end I feel so accomplished

for the first five minutes of this video, i was like: this is bonkers.

I’m newbie lol. I run 15 miles a week down from 20due to.covid

you are amazing thank you.
How many days do you train every week?

I always give myself ranges. Like 8-10 for an easy run, it might be that you don’t feel too great during the run and cut it a bit. Each day will vary just a little, but by the end of the week the range can be as much as 10 or so. Say 65-75, just because you hit 65 doesn’t mean you didn’t do everything you needed to. I have no more than 2 days a week of doubles and one rest day or a day that is 4 or less miles that is on Sunday which is after my long run on Saturday. I like waking up and deciding whether I should shakeout or not. That’s my favorite part of the week.

É uma pena não ter legenda em português (Brasil)! Uma pena!

I just track on Strava, which is very easy to sync with my watch

especially in the mtn’s and hilly areas, I go by time. For example, a long run day, I go out an hour and a half and return. The total mileage is still important, but not the primary focus. Mtn’s and hills make a big difference on long run days. For example, sometimes a hilly course will get you four mileages, sometimes seven miles but the effort is the same. So I go by time, the ego can handle it better…lol….btw…still log both.

I love this mental thing of switching from km to miles 8 miles? seems fair. 16k? much more daunting…:-)

How much sleep do you get each night? How much do you want to get?

Is 8 minutes you’re easy day pace? What designated 8 minutes to be the mark of a Jerry mile?

Hello Gwen, i’m from Belgium, i count by kilometers, i do around 50 km/week. other than total kilometers i count Intesity Points based on a simplification of Daniels’ Running Formula where i will do a ponderation with x0.2 points per minute of E running, x0.4 points per minute at M pace, x0.6 points per minute at T pace, x1.0 point per minute at I pace, and x1.5 points per minute at R pace.

What a bimbo.. 9+4=15??? Aren’t you embarrassed of yourself lol

This must be the kind of math they brainwash Nike athletes into thinking makes sense. Lost interest after about 2 minutes.

I track both ‘mileage’ (although my watch splits in kms because I feel it’s more relatable to most race distances) and time but time is the more important metric for me. I feel like the body ‘understands’ time spent at an effort level rather than distance covered, so is more valuable for determining the training load I can handle. I also like to track rpe and keep an eye on what my rpe for all my weekly training is, and compare that to the average of the preceding 4 weeks. I love the glasses btw!

Great insights as usual Gwen. I think it’s fairly obvious that Jerry miles are a tool that coaches resorted to back when they only had their stopwatch outside a track and it was hard if not impossible to calculate actual mileage. The method became outdated with GPS watches, but it obviously holds emotional value for for athletes, and helps with not being fixated with mileage, so it’s still a winner.

Really like the Jerry method of tracking. I average 40-50 miles per week during marathon season and 20-30 during triathlon season. “Listening to your body,” is excellent advice especially as you get older. BTW, love the Rudy Project glasses….

In training for a trail marathon I was hitting 50 miles of “GPS miles” plus commuter miles in cross training. I recall reading somewhere about the diminishing return of benefits of increasing the mileage beyond 50 per week. But in practise it could be an age thing or having reached my peak (and oh so average) genetic fitness level…

Gwen, you are a champion. That’s the word Colleen used to describe you the other day when she did a live on Instagram. I think it fits because you’re so consistent and precise with everything you do. I admire how nothing you do is half-hearted, and you are so in tune with your body and your running. Great video:)

This is why I coach by time instead of distance, except intervals.

Hi, thank you great video!
I personally do track miles according to GPS (usually between 70 to 80 miles, so 110-120KM), but still take easy days on time on feet, so e.g. 60 minutes easy.
I would be curious on how you structure your typical training week if you are not racing (so when you have workouts, when you double, when you do a Long run etc.)

Thank you and greetings from Austria, Europe,
Teri

What were your total training hours for all disciplines when you were training for triathlon and do you think your running benefited from cycling and swimming?

Good points about listening to your body. I am 65 years old and still running. You can run and race for a long time if one is careful and in tune with one’s self.

If it makes it easier for you to answer this common question, then you could plot the values and make a histogram. Then, you could tell people the average and standard deviation of your distribution (e.g., 85 miles w/ a std dev of 8). If there seems to be a bimodal (aka two distinct) distributions based on race weeks vs non-race weeks, then simply report two distributions. I like your take-aways.

High schoolers will be injured after watching this because they don’t want to run a “pathetic 20 mpw”?

I like the way you keep track of your mileage.I think what you said about listening to your body couldn’t be more true to prevent injury.I have a history of injury caused by hard training that was solved by changing the way I saw training

Gwen absolutely FLEXING on us with google!! HAHHA loved that!!

Gwen, they are called Badger miles. I’ve heard that for years

Interesting to hear how people log miles…. and how many do it differently…!
I’ve never logged w-up miles, jogs between intervals or warm downs… so I guess I’ve run a bit further than I think lol!!
I only ever log the working miles/reps etc… most I’ve logged in a wk is 60 miles…

hahaha, I am doing 5k Jogging five times a week hahaha only 25 km a week………..

Thanks for the video…I found that really interesting as a way of tracking and something I’ve never heard of before. I was wondering how you judge the intensity of your runs? Do you just go by feel or use pace? I really struggle to make my easy runs easy enough!

Thanks for giving an inside look on how you track your mileage! You make a lot of great points in regards to preventing injury! I would love it if you could share your journaling process! I love the videos! They have helped motivate me in this strange new “normal”. Stay healthy!