What's so hard about that? It's only 7.14 miles per run twice a day. People act like 100mpw a huge deal that only a few can accomplish.
What's so hard about that? It's only 7.14 miles per run twice a day. People act like 100mpw a huge deal that only a few can accomplish.
Congratulations.
Because most of us have real life's like work family etc. Runners are selfish weirdos on the whole
I have to be at work by 7am and can't leave until 7pm. Also, that switches every two weeks. And I start at 7pm and leave by 7am.
High mileage isn't necessarily "hard" but it certainly isn't easy. For me, moderate mileage (60mpw) is at 430am when I am on day work and and 8am (after working 12 hours overnight prior) when I am on night work.
Just do 8am 6pm and 16 on Sunday.
And its hard for most because they're busy and don't have the time in the day, especially if they stretch and do core work and strides. But if you cut those things, then you should have time.
Run 100mpw every single week for an entire year and your perspective will change.
Real life wrote:
Because most of us have real life's like work family etc. Runners are selfish weirdos on the whole
Really? The average American spends 4-5 hours per day in front of the TV. Or social media or mindless web browsing or on time wasting message boards. How do all those people fit in real life work family etc?
12's wrote:
I have to be at work by 7am and can't leave until 7pm. Also, that switches every two weeks. And I start at 7pm and leave by 7am.
High mileage isn't necessarily "hard" but it certainly isn't easy. For me, moderate mileage (60mpw) is at 430am when I am on day work and and 8am (after working 12 hours overnight prior) when I am on night work.
Interesting. I commend you for fitting moderate mileage into a fairly grueling schedule. MOST PEOPLE however only work 8-10 hours a day, not 12. That means everyone else in this thread has net 2-4 extra hours per day on you, so they really have no excuse.
Trust me, it is. I'm a mile guy and anything above 45 mpw I'm completely obliterated.
high mileage isn't hard wrote:
Real life wrote:Because most of us have real life's like work family etc. Runners are selfish weirdos on the whole
Really? The average American spends 4-5 hours per day in front of the TV. Or social media or mindless web browsing or on time wasting message boards. How do all those people fit in real life work family etc?
Because it's usually bits and pieces of your day. Not as easy to set aside an hour every morning and every evening to get dressed, run, cool down, and shower, especially if you a spouse and kids.
high mileage isn't hard wrote:
What's so hard about that? It's only 7.14 miles per run twice a day. People act like 100mpw a huge deal that only a few can accomplish.
Because simply running seven miles twice a day isn't going to make you a better runner.
What makes 100 mpw so impressive is that it's usually done with speed work, tempos, hills, and log runs -- the type of runs that actually help you improve. I've seen Strava warriors who follow your exact protocol, but they're slow as molasses.
southbysouthbest wrote:
high mileage isn't hard wrote:What's so hard about that? It's only 7.14 miles per run twice a day. People act like 100mpw a huge deal that only a few can accomplish.
Because simply running seven miles twice a day isn't going to make you a better runner.
What makes 100 mpw so impressive is that it's usually done with speed work, tempos, hills, and log runs -- the type of runs that actually help you improve. I've seen Strava warriors who follow your exact protocol, but they're slow as molasses.
Flat out wrong. There are many benefits and adaptations that come with easy mileage alone. Plus once you adapt to the mileage, it become very easy, as easy as 50 mpw used to be. At this point you can add in tempos, speed work, and hills and further improve.
Some people have: families, a 2nd job, a grueling 1st job, life outside of running, school in addition to work, social lives, hobbies that benefit the community, volunteer work.
Others have: a wealthy spouse, the luxury of not working (or not working a lot), kids in school (or with a nanny), little to do other than run and talk about running.
Running is a fine hobby, but, at it's core, it is a lonely and rather narcissistic pursuit. Running from point A to point B in a particular time does not really benefit society or add substance to life.
understander of subtlety wrote:
Some people have: families, a 2nd job, a grueling 1st job, life outside of running, school in addition to work, social lives, hobbies that benefit the community, volunteer work.
Others have: a wealthy spouse, the luxury of not working (or not working a lot), kids in school (or with a nanny), little to do other than run and talk about running.
Very few are in the former category, and none of them would waste time browsing LetsRun. Everyone reading this has no excuse except that running is just a fitness hobby.
Since when has 100mpw become "high" mileage?
A Typical LRC A-hole wrote:
Since when has 100mpw become "high" mileage?
It isn't. It's all relative. Given the perspective that 100 mpw is only 7 miles twice day, it follows that high mileage (whether that's 110 or 170 mpw or more) isn't hard.
high mileage isn't hard wrote:
southbysouthbest wrote:Because simply running seven miles twice a day isn't going to make you a better runner.
What makes 100 mpw so impressive is that it's usually done with speed work, tempos, hills, and log runs -- the type of runs that actually help you improve. I've seen Strava warriors who follow your exact protocol, but they're slow as molasses.
Flat out wrong. There are many benefits and adaptations that come with easy mileage alone. Plus once you adapt to the mileage, it become very easy, as easy as 50 mpw used to be. At this point you can add in tempos, speed work, and hills and further improve.
Show me ONE runner who has even broken 16:00 in a 5k off of easy mileage alone. Just one. We have hundreds of thousands of running logs publicly available, so finding one should be easy.
I look forward to seeing it.
southbysouthbest wrote:
high mileage isn't hard wrote:Flat out wrong. There are many benefits and adaptations that come with easy mileage alone. Plus once you adapt to the mileage, it become very easy, as easy as 50 mpw used to be. At this point you can add in tempos, speed work, and hills and further improve.
Show me ONE runner who has even broken 16:00 in a 5k off of easy mileage alone. Just one. We have hundreds of thousands of running logs publicly available, so finding one should be easy.
I look forward to seeing it.
Are you serious? Tons of college teammates would regularly break 16:00 for 5K over the summer while doing nothing but easy mileage. Most of these runners aren't the types to use high tech apps to share their training with the Twitter world. But it is scientifically well established that mileage alone is enough to increase capillarization and make you more economical.
If you really need to trudge out examples, look up the training of Ron Clarke which was pretty much nothing but steady mileage.
I might try a couple hundred mile weeks in March. Right now I double 3 days a week with a 2 hour run on Sunday. I do a vertical K on Wednesday and speedwork on Friday. Ends up 77-79 miles.
Vertical K is whatever it takes to gain 3,182 ft elevation. I set the treadmill from 10-12%.