Ken Cormier busted 120 miles a week in the summer.

Nope!!

Only if you can handle it.

Aislinn Ryan also ran up to about 70 miles a week.

That's odd, everytime people told me it was 90.

Who is Ken Cormier?

It said he peaked at 120 mpw but then brought it down to 90

i'm going to bump this thread up in a couple years and he is a total burn-out

I am going to bump this thread up when you do anything great with your running...nevermind it will never happen. OH SNAP

a fact wrote:

i'm going to bump this thread up in a couple years and he is a total burn-out

You could also do that for the kid who ran 40mpw and never matched their HS success in later life. Take your pick.

Hey guys, only time will tell.

He cracked 120 miles a week and ran a 15:22. Where will he go from here? A rational view is that this is the summit of his achievement. A good recruiter would rather take someone who ran 15:xx off 50 miles a week than someone with a 15:xx off 120 miles a week. Much more of an upside.

I think a more accurate statement would be "he cracked 120 miles a week and won the national championship." 15:22 isn't subpar (as you seem to insinuate) when it's run enroute to beating the best runners in the nation no matter how many miles you've put in.

He may have run "only" a 15:22 5k, but in the process he beat, amongst others, a 4:06 miler, an 8:51 2miler, an 8:54 2 miler, and every other "good" high school runner in the country.

where will he go from 120 mile weeks Frank Booth? i never knew that once you ran a 120 mile week you had to go up in mileage to get faster. that's interesting.

Hey, wait a minute.....MAYBE, if he ran 120 mile weeks at a greater intensity as time goes on he would improve! what a great idea!

you are an idiot and shouldn't be allowed to post. Ever heard of Rudy Chapa??? big mileage in high school and actually lowered it in college, and his times got better! wow! SIT DOWN

Cormier won Foot Locker today, for those who don't know.

He clearly has to be much faster than a 15:22.

you idiot wrote:

you are an idiot and shouldn't be allowed to post. Ever heard of Rudy Chapa??? big mileage in high school and actually lowered it in college, and his times got better! wow! SIT DOWN

No you sit down. Chapa's PR in the 10k? 28:32....from high school.

Is that you Wejo?

(insert sarcasm) OH yeah!!! He focused on the 10,000 meters in college didn't he!?!? (end sarcasm)

sit down

running a single 120mi week doesn't mean "runs 120 mpw." The summer after I finsihed HS I went to a running camp and put in 118 in 6 days -- but my avg for the whole summer was 90mpw. It was a anamalous week -- and to compensate the next week I ran about 50mi.

Additionally, where do the best in the world go in terms of volume? Depending on the event, I'd bet most top out between 3000-6000mi/yr.

If you ran 5000-6000mi/yr for years on end, would you not get any better? All you're doing is increasing your background, strength, etc. so that you can run faster and longer.