Fast-ish runners who average(d) 100+ mpw for a decent time period: How many HOURS per week did you run?

No idea. When I was running well (end of 2009), I ran for time on my feet and guessed the mileage based on that.

So a week from my diary back then was:

M: 30' easy, 45' tempo, 30' easy

T: 50' easy, Drills, 15 x 3' effort on roads w/ 1' jog recovery, 50' easy

W: 90' easy

T: 50' easy, Drills, 14 x 600m on track w/ 1' rest, 50' easy

F: 70' easy

S: 50' easy, 5.1km threshold, 6' rest, 8 x 200m hills w/ 75s jog recovery, 50' easy

S: 150' easy

Mainly trained alone, but the sessions had a group on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday to do part of the WU and WD with, and they would sometimes do the same session on Saturday's.

I DNFed the marathon I was aiming for, but thought I was in sub 2:15 shape (one of the sessions on a Thursday was a 20km solo run which involved a 3 min climb twice, and I negatively split a 62'37 as part of a training week).

I'd say about 12-14. Even when you're doing your workouts there's enough warm-up/cooldown/recovery to bring your overall pace for the entire run down to 7 Min/Mile. With Recovery Runs done at 7:30 pace, I'd say I probably averaged an 1:45 - 2 hours per day, whether that be a long run, a workout, or two shorter recovery runs.

This is coming from a 2:35 marathon guy who had about 5 years of 100+ mileage, so take that for what it's worth.

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Average probably in the 6:30-6:45 per mile range even counting workouts. So I guess 11-12 hours actually on my feet and moving.

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For me it takes about 13 hours of running of total running to do a hundred mile week.

19 hours

9-10 hours of running time. Kept the pace sub-6:00 routinely.

George213 wrote:

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Sorry to keep you waiting so long. I did not see this thread the first time around. The answer would vary depending on how fit or fast-ish I was at a given time. In my best years I was doing a lot more than 100 a week much of the time. I think a normal 20 mile day in those years took a bit under 2 hours 15 so that would be a bit over 15 hours a week. I'm really stuck on the math here, 100 miles would have taken about 70% as long? So about ten hours or a shade more should be about right?

About 10.75 hours.

The main variable was the weather. In cooler seasons, probably around 11 hours. In the dog days of summer I'd probably be around 12.5-13 on occasion.

Ran a bit more than 100 mpw and was usually around 13 hours 45 minutes for the week.

I counted my miles at 7:30 pace no matter what. An hour was 8 miles, regardless of the day, pace, weather, whatever.

Interval days involved faster running than 7:30 pace, but recoveries, etc., made it even out in my mind. 7:30 no matter what.

I think Wisconsin did/does something like that, but I didn't go to Wisconsin. Only visited the Dells as a kid.

So my 100 miles weeks were what, 12:30?