I'm going to be travelling this summer and will be on an unstructured schedule. I figure switching to singles for a few months will make things easier.
Can I run 100mpw on singles? Has anyone done it? How was it?
Right now I'm running 90mpw on doubles and will have it up to 100mpw on doubles for close to two months before I leave.
131 in singles sometimes. Used to be fun...
What is you mileage history? Back in college, our team had a number of people running 100 mile weeks in singles. Heck, some of us were running doubles 5/6 days a week and getting 100 miles in our primary runs! It is definitely possible, assuming you have a proper build up.
Like I said I'm right around 90mpw in doubles right now. have been between 70-90mpw for the past two years depending on the season. Of course there were some down weeks.
I figure that it wouldn't be too big of a shock. 2 hour Sunday runs are no problem and I figure I could string a bunch of long days together easily enough.
What's your week look like day-by-day?
Look at people who do 140-150 miles a week. If you count their big singles they are probably pretty close to 100. It's "only" 13 miles a day plus a 22 mile long run..:)
Alan
Sunday 22mi Long run
Monday 10mi Recovery Day
Tuesday 14mi w/ workout in middle
Wednesday 18mi (2nd long run)
Thursday 10mi Recovery Day
Friday 14mi w/ workout in middle
Saturday 12mi Recovery Day
Not too horrible of a week. Monday, Thursday, Saturday should be really slow easy recovery days.
Just a thought.
Can you do it? wrote:
I'm going to be travelling this summer and will be on an unstructured schedule. I figure switching to singles for a few months will make things easier.
Can I run 100mpw on singles? Has anyone done it? How was it?
Right now I'm running 90mpw on doubles and will have it up to 100mpw on doubles for close to two months before I leave.
Yes - simple arithmetic shows that just over 14 miles each day will yield 100 miles per week. Glad to be of help
can be done, but can you do it and still get quality in? Lydiard's boys could, most people can't. sometimes a fast 50:00 is better than an easy 1:20, be smart and don't train to run 100 mpw, train to race fast. many elite runners run around 70-100 mpw total
Can you do it? wrote:
I'm going to be travelling this summer and will be on an unstructured schedule. I figure switching to singles for a few months will make things easier.
Can I run 100mpw on singles? Has anyone done it? How was it?
Right now I'm running 90mpw on doubles and will have it up to 100mpw on doubles for close to two months before I leave.
You should focus more on how you feel, rather than how many miles a week you are hitting. I.E. Don't try to keep up with the same mileage you would be doing if you were doubling.
If you max at 100mpw while running doubles, you shouldn't try to run the same thing on singles.
runinto wrote:
can be done, but can you do it and still get quality in? Lydiard's boys could, most people can't. sometimes a fast 50:00 is better than an easy 1:20, be smart and don't train to run 100 mpw, train to race fast. many elite runners run around 70-100 mpw total
Hey dude the 90s called. They are looking for you.
I've been doing it since the first of the year, until this week because of the amount of snow, but normally my week looks like this:
Mon: 13-15 easy
Tue: 10 @ about current marathon pace
Wed: 15 easy
Thu: 12 fartlek w/ strides/hill bounds/whatever
Fri: 18 easy
Sat: 1warm + 10hard, faster than marathon pace
Sun: 3 hours easy, usually about 22miles, give or take depending on how I'm feeling
It'll change once base training is over...I used to do another slower run at another part of the day but stopped doing it because it takes up so much time to do 100 in singles and then about 30 or so more at the other end of the day. The important thing is to do whatever it takes to recovery by the next day, and that means proper nutrition.
I've done something similar back in my day. The ability to put in a 2nd long run helps tremendously. Some can, some can't.
Alan
running 100mpw now at age 50+ doing singles..answer is yes