slowest you know who run 100 miles a week

It's not all about the miles. I tried 100 mpw and only ran 15:29 for the 5K. I also ran a 2:24 marathon off 75 mpw. Go figure.

why do people care so much what other people do? different people react different to different types of training. look at alan webb who went back to his old coach after going to michigan and running a lot more miles. running a lot of miles is good for some people and overtraining for others. i personnaly felt like shit and looked like shit when i ran 90 miles a week. i was a pu**y a** 155lbs. ive been in the weight room for years now and weight 205lbs while running twice a week and feel great. my cardio system is acctually better according to my doctor. Just depends on the person.

This thread just sc-uh-reaaams cool story brah

I really hope you aren't actually a coach

About 16:40 for a friend who has run upwards of 110mpw for weeks in a row. Although his time will likely drop this year.

i knew a dude who ran 100mile weeks.

he ran just under 15:30 for a 5k, and maybe low 32 for a 10k.

if i ran that much, i'd be pissed if i wasn't running like 14:30s or sub 30minutes.

I'm probably one of the slowest people here, but I'm a track fan, and I like to run, sometimes. I have run 100 mile weeks, recently, and I enjoyed it, the goal-setting, being skinny, etc. But I could never really run a 5K (PRs from HS of 53, 2:00, 4:41, and @ 5K 17:24.) Mostly I ran 100 mile weeks because I was training for an ultra, and high-mileage helps. In the middle of my ultra training, I stepped into a mile race one week and a 5K the next, trying to encourage my GF to run and did 5:27 and 18:52. I'm 36 and don't train year-round.

I definitely don't consider it a waste of time, I enjoyed it.

I've ran 140 a copule of times. My highest is 154 miles in a week. My 5k pr still stands at 15:44 though. (from highschool and haven't raced a 5k in college yet)

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Hmmmmmmm wrote:

I know a guy that runs 80-90 a week that can rarely run below 19:30 for the 5K (averages about 20:00). I think he broke 19 once about 5 years ago (still in his mid 20s, not an old dude). His marathon is usually 2:56-3:05, which while not amazing, is solid, much better than the 5K. Not quite 100 miles a week, but still surprising. Definitely a lack of speed...

This sounds a lot like one of my college teammates. Does the guy you know happen to reside near Baltimore, Maryland by any chance?

The one guy I know runs around mid-18s to 19s for the 5K and marathon is around 2:56-3:05 like you said. He does have a 100-mile PR of under 19 hours and has run under 24 at Western States.

similar story here and i'm a girl. when i was running 80+ mpw, i was running between 19:00-20:00 for 5k and ran 3:00-3:05 for the marathon.

ccrunner609 wrote:

So far I have coached dozens of kids that have ran 15:20-16:40 on 40 miles a week. If you run 100 miles a week and only running 16:20........you should try something else.

It is a proven fact that the VO2 return on miles above 75 is so diminished that its not worth it.

that's funny, there's a high school coach out here who has his kids run a LOT more miles than your kids... and they race a LOT faster...

maybe YOU should try something else...

there was a guy in my high school freshman year who i'd beat all the time. he was a senior. his mile time was 5:20 and mines was 5:04. Well, I guess he got tired of me beating him and after a while he would wonder off-campus during after school practice and he would not show up until the athletic bus would pull-off. in a two month span, the guy went from 5:20 to 4:45, made it to the regional meet and ran 4:38, thus ending his high school career. this was two months! it was a mostly-black school with retarded coaches who didn't believe in mileage, but this white boy, who everybody saw as slow, ended his career with our school records.

Going into my sophomore year, this guy was my hero. I had him on my myspace and I had to ask how he got so fast. He told me that everyday he would take a 2-hour run through surrounding neighborhoods and run back to catch the bus.

He did this for only two months (during the season) and became the fastest guy on our team!

F the haters! Run Babee Run! You can be a fast white boy!

did you honestly just write "lol"? I've been far healthier on 100 mpw than I ever was in my low mileage hs, college, and post college injury days. I've managed about 13,000 miles in the past three years, whereas in hs and college I probably managed only about nine or ten weeks of health at one stretch. It's true that I have had recurrent calf problems in the past year and a half (name healthy forty year old runners), but I was healthy for about nine months prior to this one, and the mileage is not to blame for a very common imbalance injury. Achilles problems, which I virtually solved, don't allow for a low mileage, high intensity program anyway.

I think that mileage is a good factor for improving your capacities, but I disagree on the fact that the more you, the better you will get...

Indeed, according to your skills, 70-80 mpw will help you whereas 120 and more will be probably too much for most of people.

I am a 800m runner (PR: 1min50) and I "just" run 55-65 mpw. Other runners in my team run much more, but I'm better than them at the 2miles and at the 5k. The thing is, I think, that I am more used than them for running those paces. Indeed, they can run 2h in a row at 7min-7min15 pace, but they are not really used to run some mile repeats at 4min48-4min55. As a result, I can beat them on a lot of races, but if we ran a half-marathon, they would probably do better. It depends on what your goal is. If you want to be a good runner, think about those words: hard-work, time, specificity and rest. Hard-work does not mean necessarily for me a big mileage..5x400m in 51-52s hurt more than a 90minutes long run at 7min pace...I already experienced that!lol. The thing is to mix these elements in the good proportions to get the best you can do..

Finally, you can run 150mpw if you want, if you do not run intervals, tempo, hills, how can you do well on a 5k?

starting from scratch, you cannot improve your speed anywhere near as much as your fatigue resistance (how long you can run at a certain pace). So, you might be able to drop 10 to 20 percent in a sprint, with training, but you might improve your fatigue resistance by 1500 percent through aerobic training. So, the miles play a key role. At a certain point, however, you are going to need to improve your speed to make continued improvements, and particularly at short distances; hard tempos will do a lot, but if you are not running 800m pace to 5k pace workouts, you will be in trouble at any of those distances against lower mileage, higher intensity guys.

I run 110 miles per week and you cannot beat me. Take your 1 min 50 sec pr elsewhere. I run to enjoy the sport, thus mileage. I would honestly laugh at your 400 repeats and go on a long run.

I think that you misunderstood what I said. I did not say that 1min50 is the best time ever...But, when you do not have capacities. A lot of young guys (16-17) run much faster than I can do because they are talented and work hard. However, if a guy can't break 16min on a 5k with 100miles a week, there is definitely something wrong. Maybe, focus a little bit on intensity to get some speed, even if you improve only by 10%...Everything will go faster..

If you like running a lot, that's fine, but maybe focus on something else than the mile...No intensity and specificity will not result in a good time in the mile...Definitely not.

People in my team who run a lot but do not run the time they expect to, are disappointed and I understand that. You run 90mpw and the guy who runs only 60 does better times. Analyze how it is possible (and I am not gifted, I can tell you that, PR in high school:2min08) and think about it. You can do both but in the good proportions, don't run 100miles of long run if you want to PR on a mile. Maybe run 80m, but faster for some workouts...

Nobody here expects that high mileage is all that you need or that it is as important for the 800 as it is for the marathon. The longer the race the more important weekly mileage is and the less important fast intervals are.