Jumping straight to 100 miles this week, will I survive?

As long as you take the first several weeks super easy and slow.

Def taking it easy

Wrapped up today with 6 in the afternoon at a nice slow 8:30, felt great and loosened up the legs with no niggles. Actually feeling better than after yesterday's double!

Sitting at 48 miles now with 4 days left

Don't prematurely assume that you will feel bad early in the week and that if you don't feel bad, you'll be fine. I imagine you'll make it through the 100 mile week without many issues, but you may have problems down the line if you continue without easy weeks built in

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Don't prematurely assume that you will feel bad early in the week and that if you don't feel bad, you'll be fine. I imagine you'll make it through the 100 mile week without many issues, but you may have problems down the line if you continue without easy weeks built in

Good point. I'll definitely be keeping that in mind! Luckily vacation in late Dec/mid Jan for me will automatically generate some easy weeks, but I'll try my best to not go in over my head in general as I give this a shot

Even if you don't get injured, jumping to 100mpw won't result in you racing any faster. Just build up your mileage like a normal person.

Kicked off with a 10.25 this morning, spending 60% on dirt paths.

Felt pretty garbage first few miles but by the end was feeling much better. Planning for 6 in the afternoon which would put me at 64.5 ish by the end of today

Another 6 this afternoon, putting me at 64.5 with 3 days left. Feeling great. So far I've noticed how much shorter and easy runs of all length are starting to feel, both mentally and physically. A 6 mile run now feels like what a 3 mile run felt like on lower mpw.

Ideally I go into the weekend with 80 and then split the 20 as something like 15 one day and 5 the other day depending on how fresh I feel

Either a stupid troll or just stupid. 1/10

100 mpw or bust wrote:

Another 6 this afternoon, putting me at 64.5 with 3 days left. Feeling great. So far I've noticed how much shorter and easy runs of all length are starting to feel, both mentally and physically. A 6 mile run now feels like what a 3 mile run felt like on lower mpw.

Ideally I go into the weekend with 80 and then split the 20 as something like 15 one day and 5 the other day depending on how fresh I feel

that's all in your head. you haven't gotten any fitter in the last 4 days. but yes, short runs will be "easier" psychologically when you're running more.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Even if you don't get injured, jumping to 100mpw won't result in you racing any faster. Just build up your mileage like a normal person.

+1

reed wrote:

100 mpw or bust wrote:

Another 6 this afternoon, putting me at 64.5 with 3 days left. Feeling great. So far I've noticed how much shorter and easy runs of all length are starting to feel, both mentally and physically. A 6 mile run now feels like what a 3 mile run felt like on lower mpw.

Ideally I go into the weekend with 80 and then split the 20 as something like 15 one day and 5 the other day depending on how fresh I feel

that's all in your head. you haven't gotten any fitter in the last 4 days. but yes, short runs will be "easier" psychologically when you're running more.

Yeah you're right definitely silly to say that it feels easier physically. Definitely at least a mental improvement though, hoping that the actual physical benefit will follow if I can keep it up

otter wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Even if you don't get injured, jumping to 100mpw won't result in you racing any faster. Just build up your mileage like a normal person.

+1

True but I just want to try it for myself and see what happens. Felt like just going for something sharply, drastically new while trying to be as cautious as possible as far as getting injured and see how my body responds

Originally planned for a 15 miler sometime on the weekend, but the weather is looking bad during that time and I'd rather not spend 2 hours on the treadmill so I moved the 15 mile to this morning.

Run itself went well with no issues, still planning for 6 miles in the PM. No strange pains or niggles but admittedly feeling pretty darn tired.

I keep my watch on at night to keep track of my HR in the morning and so far nothing is out of whack, but a slight bump up by 2bpm this morning than the average, will be interesting to see how it fairs tomorrow morning since today is the first day I'm feeling a bit sapped.

Luckily I'm at about 80 miles before a double today so I haven't got much left to do, hoping to recover well with some light runs over the weekend to start all over again the next week.

So what is the goal of this exercise?

Just to get one week of 100 miles in? Or what?

Runner 247 wrote:

So what is the goal of this exercise?

Just to get one week of 100 miles in? Or what?

Yeah more or less, and see how it feels after and decide from there. In the ideal case I'm find out my body can handle it fine and I keep going at 100 mpw, building from all easy miles to working in quality sessions.

AKA find out what happens to me when I skip the traditional slowly build your mileage advice.

Some people respond really well to mileage, and there's only way to find out if you're one of them. Some people have to build gradually, but others can make big jumps in mileage just by running lots of easy miles. Again, only one way to find out. I might try it myself some time.

With a 6 mile PM run I'm now at 85.5 heading into the weekend. Feeling surprisingly nice after the double today!

Pretty confident I'll close out the week without much trouble, probably split the weekend 10/5 or something like that, or even shoot for 105/110 total

This sounds like a really good way to get a stress fracture. You may survive this 100-mile week, but it may be important to drop back to 60 next week for recovery. Your body needs to get used to the workload; if you get immensely tired and keep pounding it, you'll get a stressy.

I’ve been tempted to do the same but have been building up cautiously. I would love to see your bodies reaction not only this week, but months down the road. I’ve always wondered if after a couple months of slow big mileage weeks you could start to sprinkle some speed into the program.

Please keep the updates coming