Quote:
Originally Posted by Crompsin
5 miles a day isn't anything to worry about at 5'10" / 180 / reasonable meals.
|
Agreed, so long as that's not the starting point for training. That was my point. Anyone with no prior injury or health issues should be able to work their way there in short order. Generally speaking, starting at 15 miles/week is a good idea. 20 miles/week can be done if you've got a decent cardio base going already, but 35/week is going to overload something fairly quickly, which is my guess as to what happened to the OP's calves.
I know a guy that logged 120 miles/week every week for 5 years. He ran every single day in that time, and I've seen his logs (when you're really hardcore, you log every single mile you run along with the route and conditions). He went to 3 Olympic trials in that time (2 marathon, one track) but never qualified. He also the top placing American at the NYC marathon two years in a row.
There's no such thing as running too much - as I think I said - there's only building too quickly or putting too much stress on the body's systems.