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).
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?
You conveniently left out the part of the repeated injuries from doing 180 mile weeks. His body eventually broke down.
readrun wrote:
Anton Krupica basically willed himself to success in that sport by running 180 miles a week,
Only because he wasn't eating anything. He would running 20 miles and eat half a head of broccoli.
A Ham wrote:readrun wrote:You conveniently left out the part of the repeated injuries from doing 180 mile weeks. His body eventually broke down.
Anton Krupica basically willed himself to success in that sport by running 180 miles a week,
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.
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.
Very well said. Train smarter, not farther.
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.
Well, how do you know what overdoing it is until you've overdone it?! ;)
jaguar1 wrote:
not overdoing it is of upmost importance.
Have you got an example of a typical training week?
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.