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  • About 20 miles a week would be very low for a professional runner, and a serious amateur race-runner would probably be doing more. But it’s risky to increase your mileage too quickly.

    If you’re not currently following a training program, you’d probably get more benefit from starting to follow a structured program than just increasing mileage. There are different systems in the body which benefit from running at different speeds: e.g. short sprints build your leg muscles, 3 minute intervals build your maximum aerobic capacity, 20 minute hard sessions improve your ability to clear lactate from your blood. If you find a training plan it will give you a variety of different paces to help you build different systems.