Archetype
High Mileage, Smart Mix
You've got the volume and you're keeping your easy days truly easy and your hard days truly hard — the gold-standard pattern.
What it usually looks like
- 80%+ of weekly time is genuinely easy
- 1–2 hard sessions per week
- Weekly km is stable and reasonably high
How RunDNA spots it
Intensity verdict = polarized, recovery is balanced or well-recovered, weekly volume ≥30km.
See the full rules on the methodology page.
Typical limiter
Nothing critical — refine for race goals
Do this
- Pick a goal race and start specificity work in the final 6–10 weeks
- Add tempo or threshold once you're inside 8 weeks of a goal half/full
Avoid
- Drifting the easy days faster — the discipline is the whole moat
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