Training tips From RayK

But I digress. You asked about training. Here are the rules.
1. Run every day. In fact run twice most days. I have found 11 runs per week to be optimum. I have run as few as one run in a week (six days tend to do that to you) and as many as 25 runs in a week.
2. Gradually build your mileage to 100-120 per week. I spent 17 years at one point averaging 117 miles per week.
3. Do speedwork, anywhere from 8% to 12% of total mileage.
4. Take a day off once in a while- my longest "streak" is under 100 days. Yes you need more runs/mileage later, but it all works out.
5. Slow down. Relax on your workouts (except speed workouts which should be sped up).
6. Run races, 5K, 10K marathons, ultras Go race, That is why you train in the first place.
7. Plan on, and have fun on every run, race, whatever. If it is not going to be fun don't do it. If it stops being fun go home. (Like this list, it is not fun for you, so have fun somewhere else. I personally stay amused here, and have all those unopened posts to look forward to in my dotage.)
8-10 tend to draw ire from folks that "know better" and since we already have DK to flop around I refuse to relieve him of that burden. (Perhaps the second to last chapter of my book.)