most miles run by a human in a life

reality check wrote:

When you were 18 Michigan wasn't even a state yet, to say nothing of the fact there weren't any high schools out on the frontier back then. So, uh, this story is completely bogus.

Eat hot tamales and die, bitch!

O.K., just winding thread up.

One again, Ted Corbitt.

Goodnight.

Man, I must be tired:

O.K., just winding this thread up.

Once again, Ted Corbitt.

Goodnight.

Ah yes, Ted Corbitt

If I am not mistaken, he has quite a funny story on his part. He had just discovered he had gotten a miniscus tear and had surgery. Soon he realized that streak would be over on the consecutive days run, but he said NO! So he jogged/limped a mile on the track and keep the streak living on until now

I believe that was him, so the streak is still going

I believe Noah lived about 900 years.

TC is probably right, but Mark Covert has to have run an absolute mountain of miles with his long, long streak and his years of 100 mile weeks.

About ten years ago, maybe more, there was a little piece in Running Times about Darryl Beadall mentioning that he'd run well over 200,000 miles in his life. They did have an exact number but I can't remember what it was, 228,000 comes to mind but I might be confusing that with his best marathon, which I'm pretty sure was 2:28. If Beardall has run at the same rate in the intervening years he'd be at a higher number than the original poster by now.

Gordon Pirie had been listed in the Guiness Book of records as having run the most miles in a lifetime with something like 215,000, but Pirie said he was actually closer to 240,000. Corbitt is another likely candidate.

You beat me to it. Didn't Beardall have several years over 10,000? Maybe I'm misremembering. I had a couple years in a row over 7,000, and it seems all I did was run. Beardall at the time of the article had a family and a job etc.... Nuts! (In a mostly good way, I suppose)

I would be interested in knowing what kind of times did you run off of 7000 miles in a year? Did you do it just because you wanted to or did you do it for racing?

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You beat me to it. Didn't Beardall have several years over 10,000? Maybe I'm misremembering. I had a couple years in a row over 7,000, and it seems all I did was run. Beardall at the time of the article had a family and a job etc.... Nuts! (In a mostly good way, I suppose)

That 10,000 mile year rings a bell, but only a dim one. I do know that the little RT piece mentioned that Beardall held the record for most miles run in a lifetime and also for the most races won. I thought it would make a great slogan: "Most Miles Run. Most races Won."

There was also mention that he had developed some sort of intermittent neurological problem that made it difficult to control his hands and possibly other extremities at times.

I feel like such a wimp now with a high year of only about 5600 miles.

In a recent issue of Ultra Running there was an article about a guy living in Baltimore who has run 20 miles every day for 20 years straight and he's only in his mid to late 40's. Thats about 150,000 miles so far and so he might have a shot at catching you.

The article was interesting. The guy isn't married na dlives alone working as a carpenter for his cousin's furniture shop. After college he decided to take up running to keep the weight off. He kept adding to his run and after a few years he was up to 20 miles. He says he likes the way it makes him feel, a content type of tired. 6 times per year he does a 50 mile run from his apartment in Baltimore to the Capital building in DC and then walks a few blocks to the bus terminal and takes a bus ride home.

He's not into competition and doesn't run races. He just runs his 20 miles a day at 8:30 to 9:00 minute mile pace because he likes it.

That guy could hit 300,000 before he's done.

Agreed though that Corbitt or Beadall are probably the reigning champions.

does anyone know how much Jim Pearson has logged?

I had the honor of running a few strides with Daryl Beardall in Golden Gate Park last weekend at the USATF National Master's x-c. I think I had last run a race in that park with him 36 years ago in 1970. I was 20 then and I thought he was really old.(in his thirties) He had a 70+ number on his back. I'm still just a kid. 57.

Tom

Mark Covert's mile's

1969 5401

1970 5566

1971 6342

1972 6331

1973 5401

1974 5274

1975 6265

1976 5265

1977 5574

1978 4856

1979 4319

1980 4372

1981 4152

13 yr span - other yrs a bit less - I think he's headin into about 150k or so

another college team-mate ran (in a coupla yrs stretch) @:

1971 7286 miles 19.96/day

1972 7288 miles 19.91/day

1973 8060 miles 22.08/day

1974 5815 miles 15.93 day ("I joined the AF and was not allowed to run much for 90 days.")

1975 7535 miles 20.64 day

somewhere in there he had a month or two in succession @ well above 200 wk

:)

michigan became a state in 1837.

I did it for racing. It did help; I improved my marathon time by 20 minutes. Unfortunately it was 2:47 to 2:27. I do believe it helped me more nearly maximize my very meager talent, but running that much is, I'm sorry to say, not a ticket to world class status. I did hit 200 in a week on 3 occasions (about what you'd have to almost always do to hit 10,000 probably), but it really didn't help. My conclusion was that, for most people, consistent high mileage is necessary but not sufficient.

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I would be interested in knowing what kind of times did you run off of 7000 miles in a year? Did you do it just because you wanted to or did you do it for racing?

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manny wrote:

I am 88 years old and have been averaging 10 miles a day since I was 18. I have logged over 250,000 miles running. I think that may be the most miles any human being has ever run in the history of man kind.

to put things in perspective, the earths circumference is 15,000 miles around.

how many times have you ran around the entire earth!!???

The earth's circumference is 25,000 miles, not 15,000 miles. Still, the people mentioned in this thread--as well as undoubtedly many others--have run enough miles to circumnavigate the globe more than once!