If I ran 100 MPW for the next several weeks and stayed uninjured what would happen?

therealdeal2 wrote:

Very curious and wanting to try this out. 100 MPW with quality workouts tempos and long runs each week would I improve greatly or would it be pointless?

If you wear a breatheright strip you might be okay. Otherwise DON'T DO IT!

you would get injured unless you are already up there in which case if you bumped it up 3 miles and you are doing 97 rn, wouldnt notice much of a difference.

But if you are running 30 mpw and somehow bumped it up to 100 mpw you would just be very sore and tired and your tempos would be really slow and you wouldnt have any quality running you'd just be super tired on every run

What is your training volume now? Have you ever been injured before or do you have any lingering issues? One a day or two a day?

Doping duh

You'll be fine if covered in black tapes

Some people adapt and get faster. Others get slower. Try it and see.

For the next several weeks?

You would probably be really tired. That's about it.

A lot of college cross country teams do this about this time of the year to finish the off season of XC training. A bump of 20 MPW for a few weeks can help finish off a solid aerobic base, then you drop back down to 70 or 80 for the early XC season.

I'd say you should be well rested from the drop in mileage

Be sure to wear a holey Nike singlet on all your runs. It will conserve your energy. These ain't no 95 mile weeks ya know.

therealdeal2 wrote:

Very curious and wanting to try this out. 100 MPW with quality workouts tempos and long runs each week would I improve greatly or would it be pointless?

Assuming yo are jumping from 50-70 miles per week to 100 you will see a number of things - and it is doable.

Your "quality" workouts will be slower. This is fine.

Your "quality" tempos will be slower. This is fine.

Your "quality" long runs will be slower. This is fine.

Your "quality" time with your main squeeze will be, uhh, more their responsibility. This is fine.

Eat more, drink more water, sleep as much as possible.

Coming back down to your normal / desired mileage will produce the faster workouts and - hopefully - faster races. When the mileage gets tough - and there's no injury - keep on pushing.

therealdeal2 wrote:

Very curious and wanting to try this out. 100 MPW with quality workouts tempos and long runs each week would I improve greatly or would it be pointless?

There's only one way to find out and asking about it on a message board isn't it.

I've got.... 9 weeks in a row of 100 mpw under my belt (averaged 90 in the spring and maybe 75-80 with peaks of 100 last year). I'm confident that I'm about to take 5-8 minutes off my 2:33 marathon PR once the weather cools (living in TX, still hot/humid). I've dropped about 10 seconds per mile from my intervals and 15 seconds per mile from my tempos, and could probably set PRs at every distance in a solo training run.

But there's a catch. I've done it long enough that I'm not fatigued at all, I get my 8 hours of sleep per night, stretch out in the pool and hot tub after hard runs, and I feel totally normal. My experience is that stretching to run higher mileage that causes you to be run down all the time is not a good way to race faster.

Lil b is that you?

Jose!