Was there anything that made it particularly memorable?
Was there anything that made it particularly memorable?
Never have, never will. Maxed out at 73. I remember being tired. And sore
On August 9th, 2014, I'll be able to remember it, if all goes well.
Yep, July 2011 before my last year of college. I was on a family vacation at the beach. Humid as hell but got in two tempo runs, a long run and a great 9 miler in the pouring rain to cap off 101.
I remember thinking to myself: "nothing too special about that."
4th comment just here to note that only 1 of 4 responses so far are from people who've run a 100 mile week. of course
No. I have it written down in an old log though. I doubt looking at it would jog my memory. I know it was the summer of 2003.
Yup. Half the week was on vacation but it also included traveling halfway across the world.
I remember finishing on a country road I was staying at. It felt good. I always liked vacation running.
Watchsocks wrote:
Was there anything that made it particularly memorable?
Yes, it was last year.
I had just run a solid Half Marathon PR, with a 95% effort. I accomplished this off an average of 74 mpw, with 3 peak weeks over 80.
Afterwards, while casually discussing the race, training, the Kenyan winners with my Dad (who knows nothing about running & training), he said "if they are running 100-140 mpw, why are you screwing around running 70-80?".
I then proceeded to run weeks of 90, 91, 105, 62, 105, 103. Followed by an injury that left me hobbling & unable to run for the next 3 months. I am only now, 14 months later, reaching the same fitness level of that half marathon.
I can be an idiot sometimes.
But, the 100 mile week was memorable. Memorable enough that I intend on taking another 1-2 years building up properly before I hit that level again.
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Interesting topic if some of the better runners chime in with their experiences of what it did or did not get them.
My only hundred-mile weeks were racewalking, not running. And I remember that they just took a lot of time--the best part of 20 hours/week, at the speeds I trained at.
OTOH I also remember them because they led to a PR in the 50kmRW and, within the (then) limits of my technique, I was the fittest for the distance that I'd ever be, with a four-second negative split on the second 25km.
But yeah, mostly I remember that 100mi/wk was basically like having a part-time job. Just a lot of time...
Summer before senior year of college. Nothing too special, though the one thing that stands out was how painful those knobs below my knees were on the last day. No injuries, though.
Cut my 8k time from 26:00 to 25:20 that season and probably could've set PRs at every other distance.
Nice responses everyone. It's funny how there isn't much of a difference between 99 and 100, but once you cross that barrier there is a certain mental relief that gets pushed out of the way.
August 1990, the summer before my sophomore year of college. I was a no-talent hack by D-3 standards (and I was on a D-1 team) but at least I was a fit no-talent hack. Just strong aerobic runs over very hilly courses with 1-2 fartlek runs mixed in. I knew I needed to do that before I could tackle my coach's 70 mile weeks with tempo, intervals & racing.
Yes. It was cold and snowy. I ran it because Arthur Lydiard had passed. I had just learned of his training philosophy and wanted to pay my respects in some way, I guess.
I was 16 and it wax dumb, yet I still did it.
A few months later I ran a huge PR going from 3:09 to 2:59 (but I had years of running 3:10-3:15ish) as a woman in my mid-30s. I just did a slow methidical build, but I went from 60 as a high to 100 in about 12 weeks.
Watchsocks wrote:
Was there anything that made it particularly memorable?
Not sure but I once came close when I did a challenge on the Runner's World forums..(yikes, I admit to posting on there..lol) and they had a mileage challenge. I think I made it in the 90's. Oh well, it was fun when I did it.
Summer of 1997 before my senior year of cross country in college. Did an easy 12 or so on Saturday morning and thought I had 100 wrapped up, then realized I was 3m short. Did a 2nd run around 1 and it was about 107 outside. Sucked, but hit 100. Felt pretty good that week. Averaged just over 70 miles a week for 10 weeks that summer and had a solid season.
I ran a 100-miler in under 19 hours.
It was the first or second week in February of my senior year of high school. Ran 101 miles with 5 days of doubles. It was pretty uneventful looking back at it but I felt like an animal at the time. The following 2 wks hit 97 and 100 even. After the 3rd wk I started feeling overly tired so cut it back to the 85 mpw I was supposed to be doing. Didn't hit 100 mpw again consistently until my senior year of college but started putting in weeks and weeks of 100+ consistently and that's when I saw the biggest drop in PRs.
Yes, it was 103 to be exact. I had been running consistently in the 90's so it was not remotely memorable to me. Just another week.
Spring break sophomore year of college. Now the team travels somewhere south to train, but I just cranked out a 100 mile week at home to prep for Boston where I fell apart in the heat. Did set my mile pr a few weeks later.