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Lauri, How many days in a row are you wanting to run? 5 days in row is great.

6 days a week is wheat I am going to do until Portland at least. That is the main philosophy of the fast running blog and Sashas big push to start. 6 days a week, no excuses, to be a better runner. I got five last week and this will be my first week of 6 but its really not that bad and doesn't hurt.

That is interesting Laurie, where do I read about his philosophy on running? Looks like tomorrow you will make the 6 day goal, and even while on a vacation!

Leslie - right here. Run 6 days a week, no excuses, no exceptions. There is no elite runner that does not do at least that. In fact, that is just about the only thing they have in common as far as training is concerned - some do a lot of speed, others do a lot of base, you see a lot of variations in what they do on those days and how fast. Elites have essentially the same bodies that obey the same laws as everybody else, they just happen to have more natural speed. The fact that it is impossible to compete at the elite level without training 6 days a week shows that there is something about it. If there was not, you would see people following 3-5 days a week schedule competing at the top level all the time.

We've seen a lot of evidence of 6 days a week magic on the blog. I think if I took the time to summarize it, I could probably find 30 cases of 30+ minute marathon PRs documented with daily blog entries when somebody went from less than 6 days a week schedule to 6 days a week. That would be pretty much everybody who tried.

Wow! Sasha how did you know I asked that question? This is very cool. I am going to make 6 days a week be my new goal, thank you for the information!!

Sasha, thanks for answering Leslies question, I wasn't sure where I would have found it besides a training request.

Leslie, I really like having this as my thing now. I have been hit and miss in training. That's why I don't improve. This is a plan I can follow. I've been very happy about all my workouts. I have never truly run for myself before, just for something else, and had my husband pushing me out the door. So I have been pleased to be away from home with less than ideal(ie easy) running conditions, and without my husband, I'm glad to be stepping it up and proud of it.

We'll can watch each other and make sure we get the 6 days and avoid the goose eggs :)

Okay Laurie, I am going to do this! It will be nice to check up on each other and compare notes and motivate each other. Thanks, and thanks for having Sasha answer my question.

Good job sweety. keep up the great work. I never doubted you that you could do it, I thought would do 2-3 days and maybe 4. Thanks for proving me wrong:)