Pat,

Typically units run three days a week (M-W-F) and do some sort of MSE twice a week (Tu-Th).  The biggest issue I see is leaders (not just LTs) do not understand how to vary intensity.  A common one is every run is a fast run.  Leaders push their Soldiers to always run fast or make every run a competition.  When I designed a new run program for my company, our average Soldier improved by between 40 seconds to 1 minute.  I did not increase how far the Soldiers ran or how many days they ran.  That stayed the same or decreased.  However, I changed the format of the runs.  Monday was a speed day (shorter sprints of some sort).  Wednesday was a mid distance day (longer speed repeats, fartleks, hill workout, etc).  The intensity on these days varied.  Friday was a longer run, but at a slow pace.  Their target speed was 1-2 minutes per mile slower than their race pace mile (ex, if they ran a 12 min two mile, they would run the Friday runs no faster than 7-8 minutes per mile).  I would make some Fridays slower (around 2 minutes slower per mile) and some closer to 1 minute per mile.  The same concept is true when it comes to MSE training.

Chad