What is your weekly mileage? Has anyone ever ramped up to 220 before? My peak has been 201 and I have done it twice. I want to see how far I can go. Anyone ever reached 220?
What is your weekly mileage? Has anyone ever ramped up to 220 before? My peak has been 201 and I have done it twice. I want to see how far I can go. Anyone ever reached 220?
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Take it in manageable chunks. About 51:31 at a time.
Waste of time to do that many miles. Plus it is not healthy.
White Hot wrote:
What is your weekly mileage? Has anyone ever ramped up to 220 before? My peak has been 201 and I have done it twice. I want to see how far I can go. Anyone ever reached 220?
Anton Krupica basically willed himself to success in that sport by running 180 miles a week, but that's still well short of your goal (or troll, not sure).
The best example you have to look at is Scott Jurek, who averaged something like 308 miles a week for six weeks last summer during his Appalachian Trail record attempt. You saw the toll it took on him, so be careful.
I thought that Lydiard supposedly experimented with running up to 250 miles per week.
I ran 200+ twice but never 220. I know plenty of ultra runners who have run that for isolated weeks, but never consistently. What I found, personally, was that any time I ran over 180 I'd get sick or hurt. The key is consistency. It's better to run 8 weeks at 120 than to run one at 220 and 7 at zero.
readrun wrote:
Anton Krupica basically willed himself to success in that sport by running 180 miles a week,
You conveniently left out the part of the repeated injuries from doing 180 mile weeks. His body eventually broke down.
A Ham wrote:
readrun wrote:Anton Krupica basically willed himself to success in that sport by running 180 miles a week,
You conveniently left out the part of the repeated injuries from doing 180 mile weeks. His body eventually broke down.
Only because he wasn't eating anything. He would running 20 miles and eat half a head of broccoli.
Who cares? Honestly the guy with the biggest training log doesn't win the race. So whether you win the race by training 20 mpw or 220 it doesn't matter.
I'm more about seeing the baby, not so worried about the labor pains.
Google Bruce Tulloh. He ran across the U.S.A. In 64 days so averaged 314 miles a week. That was over nine weeks so if there is a positive training effect to be had, he got it. He wrote a book so he probably had something to
say about the aftermath.
I am in awe of anyone who could run 200 miles in a week, though I would agree that it is probably not a good thing to do. The risk of injury would be very high.
I am a masters runner who "joined the game" late in life, and so I would love to run 90 or even scrape a hundred once or twice. I have peaked with 70-mile weeks, and I think 72 is my exact high (would have to check my log). Right now, I am injured, and so any mileage at all would be great.
Happy running.
Never been that high, been in the 160s for a few weeks while in school . The key will be to go slow, don't force the pace on easy runs at all and get proper recovery
Link wrote:
I thought that Lydiard supposedly experimented with running up to 250 miles per week.
I ran 200+ twice but never 220. I know plenty of ultra runners who have run that for isolated weeks, but never consistently. What I found, personally, was that any time I ran over 180 I'd get sick or hurt. The key is consistency. It's better to run 8 weeks at 120 than to run one at 220 and 7 at zero.
He did do that for a while. I've never found out for how long. Jeff Julian, one of his original guys would get into that range during his build up. He'd sometimes run a marathon before work and then a 10-15 mile run after work. Julian did have the world record for 40 miles at one point.
I'm not a fan of excessively high volume, but rather finding your personal sweet spot, keeping it consistently high, and maintaining quality. The best ultra runners in the world are training and racing a variety of distances/surfaces and training with purpose and structure. Being healthy and not overdoing it is of upmost importance.
BlastedMaster wrote:
Who cares? Honestly the guy with the biggest training log doesn't win the race. So whether you win the race by training 20 mpw or 220 it doesn't matter.
I'm more about seeing the baby, not so worried about the labor pains.
Very well said. Train smarter, not farther.
Thanks for the advice guys. I am on course for 220 this week and feeling great. I 'm going for it!
jaguar1 wrote:
not overdoing it is of upmost importance.
Well, how do you know what overdoing it is until you've overdone it?! ;)
Isn't that one of the main points of doing ultramarathons? To push yourself further than previously thought, both physically and mentally. That, by some definitions, is over-doing it.
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jaguar1 wrote:
I'm not a fan of excessively high volume, but rather finding your personal sweet spot, keeping it consistently high, and maintaining quality. The best ultra runners in the world are training and racing a variety of distances/surfaces and training with purpose and structure. Being healthy and not overdoing it is of upmost importance.
Have you got an example of a typical training week?
White Hot- best of luck.
Always amazed by consistent high mileage; would you post your log here, or just post a daily update of your runs?