I went from 60 miles a week to 146 miles last week.

Thanks for the positive support! I ended up logging two hours (ill call it 15) and I'm going for another two hours now with the gps. Going by time seems to make it easier for me. 74 for the week and I'm really hurting.

Throw an easy day in there at some point. Maybe just do the 2 hours today and pick it back up tomorrow? Don't injure yourself!

Sorry ill try to keep my posts under the same name. I obviously use another account here.

17 miles earlier in 2:02:03. felt really good around 1:20 the crashed at 1:45.

91 miles for the week.

So my run today was supposed to be only one hour. I was trying to rest the legs. Turns out I got lost in the city for about 45 minutes, so I just tagged on the extra 15 minutes and did yet another 2 hour run. I probably won't run tonight.

16 miles pretty hard effort once I hit a wall. Did some striders after and stretched the legs out, which is almost impossible to do after running for so long, I found.

108 for the week, and still have two more days to go. I don't think I'm going to hit my original goal, but I think 150-160 is worth a shot. I feel like Cam Levins.

Good stuff. Are you using a foam roller?

desperate for beantown wrote:

I'll try to keep everyone posted.

Don't bother. You'll be pretty busy.

How much are you eating? And what' your lifestyle like? (typical day, job/school, other responsibilities, etc)

average healthy male runner wrote:

How much are you eating? And what' your lifestyle like? (typical day, job/school, other responsibilities, etc)

Sorry for the lack of response the last couple days, I figured nobody cared about this thread anymore. I ran another 18 miles yesterday which felt pretty good the last hour surprisingly. That put me at like 126 going into this morning. Then this morning I put it a 11 miler to hit 137 for the week. I'm thinking about going out for another 13 miles tonight to hit 150. I really crashed and burned this week. most of my runs are 740 pace nsow and my shin kills.

My lifestyle is pretty laid back for the next 10week before I start applying to grad schools. I'm not sure if I'm taking a down week or not next week but ill probably still try to hit 120. I'm eating just about anything and basically chugging chocolate milk.

Cool, good luck with the miles. Keep updating cause this threads pretty good, kind of an inspiration to me since I did something similar but on a lesser scale. Went from 50 to 90 miles and now the body is starting to feel much better and comfortable after 4 weeks.

Did you end up hitting that 150 last week? How's this week going?

desperate for beantown wrote:

I'm thinking about going out for another 13 miles tonight to hit 150. I really crashed and burned this week. most of my runs are 740 pace nsow and my shin kills.

I'm not sure if I'm taking a down week or not next week but ill probably still try to hit 120.

Don´t you realise that the crashing and burning is because your body is in a severe catabolic state? This means that you are well beyond an optimal volume of training. Your muscles are slowly DIGESTED by your own body.

Listen to me, please, if you want to make the only good solution for your body: STOP THE MADNESS. You won´t reach any good from the simply too hard training. You have to have an anabolic response from training instead a catabolic one, to improve.

Don´t listen these children who are supporting you. I´m trying to help you, not being against you.

desperate for beantown wrote:

Sorry ill try to keep my posts under the same name. I obviously use another account here.

17 miles earlier in 2:02:03. felt really good around 1:20 the crashed at 1:45.

91 miles for the week.

I crashed at 1:45 on my 2:30hr run. I chowed down 2 gel bars, got back into it, then got into a health walk, run rhythm.

I went from 4hrs to 9hrs, I cross train in gym. I got through the runs okay. One thing did happen.

I tore a stomach muscle. Oh well, back to 0hrs running.

Are you trying to get a monster peak out of these miles? What kind of surface are you running on (ie, sidewak, pavement, trail)? I wonder if something like this is what it takes to take the training up to the next level and have a lasting effect. Maybe when you come back down to 60 to 70mpw, you will own the those miles with intensity and ease.

Raptured wrote:

Did you end up hitting that 150 last week? How's this week going?

Yep! Ended up at 150 last week. So the last three weeks look like 60-146-150. I'd like to try for more, but I think I'm going to take a down week this week. Basically what I've done this week is take Monday completely off. I didn't feel super dead or anything, but I thought I would get ahead of the recovery process. Today and yesterday I logged 47 miles. 27 on Tuesday, and 20 today. I didn't have time for a second run because I worked 10 hours. I'll be running a double tomorrow to try to hit 25. Basically I'm doing what I did the last two weeks but with a day off instead. Should still hit close to 130.

I appreciate those of you who are trying to warn me against running this kind of mileage, but honestly I'm adjusting well. I've felt pretty tired some days, but it's not anything different than how I feel on a 60 mile a week, I just have to endure it longer. I'm starting to feel really strong, it's great. Honestly, if I get injured or my body eats my muscles (or whatever the guy above said), who is going to miss me? I just want to see how much I can improve before I run the Boston marathon and then another one in the fall (which I won't name because I don't want to give away my location really).

Anyway, I'll keep trying to update this thread as much as possible and post my Boston result. I just figure half the people here don't believe that I'm doing this so I didn't want to keep trying to convince people I'm telling the truth. It's annoying.

Best of luck dude, keep up the running. Don't be afraid to run easy though. Since you just did a huge increase, you probably don't want to include any really hard workouts or too many fast runs. If you feel good, run fast, if you don't, run slow.

Make sure your really taking care of your body and recovering. This is what I really think was important for me when i bumped to around 100 from 60. At 60 mpw I didn't really take care of my body, but now I do. Eat a ton of food (i personally have to force myself to eat more than I'm hungry for to maintain my weight), ice, compress, and elevate your legs, maybe ice baths/massages. A lot of sleep obviously, I get ~10 hours and a 30 min nap.

Are you dong most of your miles on trails or roads? I do most of mine on roads, and don't really feel any different than trails. Wonder how much more I could do on trails though.

nice - way to push the envelope. inspiring. I am very curious to see if it has a positive impact on your racing.

I know the feeling that you´re talking about. You feel great, strong etc for awhile. I hope that I am wrong, and you will keep going strong. When I upped me mileage once heavily, I did great for months (I took down weeks), but after about 6 months, I realised that I was severely overtrained and had to took months of very light training. Maybe you survive for a couple of months and get a great race, but I doubt that you can handle it much longer. Good luck anyways!

Just ran 21 miles today, but broke it up with 10 in the morning and 11 (including hill repeats) at night after work. I'm pretty surprised I'm holding up this well. I'm hoping I run well in Boston, but I think if I keep this up until next fall I can probably run a fast PR.

At this point I should probably talk about my background in marathoning. I trained for one about two years ago and got into some pretty high miles. I was aiming for 2:28, and made it to about 21 miles feeling great and on pace, but hit the wall HARD and finished in 2:46. I definitely think that I could've been a little more conservative and run 2:30-2:35 relatively easily, but I was really set on breaking 2:30. I've been in a slump ever since. My miles have been low and I have been lazy. I swore off marathons and haven't run a PR in anything besides and indoor 5k, and some tempo paces. I decided now to just suck it up and get after it again and really see how good I can get. Hopefully in Boston I can run 2:45ish and then maybe 2:30 by the fall.

desperate for beantown wrote:

I think I'm going to try to hit 200. I'm just going to run whenever I have free time.

I'm sure you have a lot of that