I could run way more than that if i didn't have to work.
I could run way more than that if i didn't have to work.
hot weather shuffler wrote:
He posted a long thing saying he was going. I was really sad.
Really? Any search terms from that post you remember, so I can try and find it?
I couldn't find it either. Was it deleted?
Did anyone actually bother to look at his strava? Yes, he's logging a lot of slow miles but looks like plenty of them are hilly, he's doing some 12mm as well as the much slower full on walking miles. Looking at some of his runs he appears to be doing a run walk sort of thing but never really picks up the pace much. I mean either way he definitely appears to be 'running' at least some of the time and if you notice even from the article his fastest races werent all that fast to begin with. EIther way its impressive to me. I doubt many here even slowing way down could log 8,000 miles in a year without injury.
Is that his wife, daughter or girlfriend ? very pretty
Guy has some serious demons he is dealing with
If he's logged 20 miles a day for 40 years, why is he not on the 100,000 mile club?
I believe the way you get into that club is simply to get in touch with Amby and tell him how much you're run. Maybe this guy hasn't done that.
Very impressive! Last year was a leap year, so he averaged 21.86 miles per day for 366 days. I made it well above 5,000 miles last year for the first time with only about three weeks where I had to take time off because of calf injuries, and that meant over two hours per day most days. I was going a lot faster but nowhere near as fast as I was going seven or eight years ago, except for a short period with access to a track. But to go around fifty percent more, that is something. His pace and time actually makes me wonder whether Nietzsche covered similar amounts of ground up in the Alps back in the 1880s after retiring, because he walked 5-6 hours a day after getting up early to write.
8,000 is a lot wrote:
adsfdasfasfsafadfa wrote:
Well for a 61 year old it isn't as bad as it seems but yeah when you are basically walking I have to imagine things like impact stress go way down. The dude probably has like a 2' stride.
I'm 70 and do about 50mpw. Half that is running at 8:30/mi to 9:30/mi pace. The other half is recovery at a fast walk pace. My fast walking is 14:00-14:30/mi pace. From my Garmin, stride length on my walking is about .88 meters, which is about 34 inches. Doing 8,000 miles per year would be like walking is your full-time job. As for diet I do eat a reasonable amount of meat and other protein, but most of nutrition is complex carbohydrates like granola, whole grain bread, potatoes, fruit, etc., and a reasonable amount of fermented fruits and grains.
I 63 and run every day, but running that slowly for that long would drive me nuts (not that I'd have the time anyway). Just working back up to about 40 per week, but every except track-sessions is somewhere between 7 (tempo) and 8 (recovery) minutes per mile. I've been running/racing for 50 years, so I'd guess I'm coming up to 100,000 miles. I'd guess I've somewhere around 3,000 track sessions (used to be twice a week if racing, three times if not).
I'm more impressed with 60+ year olds actually running fast in any distance for their age. Not just slow jogging miles because they have nothing better to do.
Cavorty wrote:
8,000 is a lot wrote:
I'm 70 and do about 50mpw. Half that is running at 8:30/mi to 9:30/mi pace. The other half is recovery at a fast walk pace. My fast walking is 14:00-14:30/mi pace. From my Garmin, stride length on my walking is about .88 meters, which is about 34 inches. Doing 8,000 miles per year would be like walking is your full-time job. As for diet I do eat a reasonable amount of meat and other protein, but most of nutrition is complex carbohydrates like granola, whole grain bread, potatoes, fruit, etc., and a reasonable amount of fermented fruits and grains.
I 63 and run every day, but running that slowly for that long would drive me nuts (not that I'd have the time anyway). Just working back up to about 40 per week, but every except track-sessions is somewhere between 7 (tempo) and 8 (recovery) minutes per mile. I've been running/racing for 50 years, so I'd guess I'm coming up to 100,000 miles. I'd guess I've somewhere around 3,000 track sessions (used to be twice a week if racing, three times if not).
Same age, but while tempos are low 7s, recovery is fully 3 minutes slower at 10:00. Just curious as to how you structure say a 50 mile week (when you are fully back from whatever you are just working back from).
His legs must be hammered?
Most importantly, what kind of shoes is he wearing? Hokas? Cheaterflys? Voit?
Says he prefers aisics and his only shoe on strava says ASICS Nimbus with almost 20k miles on it. Guessing he just switches them out when he feels like but doesnt update strava.
HRE wrote:
I believe the way you get into that club is simply to get in touch with Amby and tell him how much you're run. Maybe this guy hasn't done that.
What's this guy's motivation for running this much for this long? Is it just to be famous on Strava? This guy was apparently doing this before Strava existed, so what is he trying to achieve. Maybe he's OCD and feels he has to run 20 miles a day because he's done it for so long. We had a local guy who was very slow and ran 7,000+ miles per year. Not married and no kids. His main motivation was to post his yearly mileage to a local Facebook group.