My 100 MPW Strategy

Cool story. Now, despite your "dedication", you have to run 2 hours 15 minutes the next four days, rather than the much more reasonable 2 hours/day you were planning on. This is not the way to reach your goal my friend. 3 days in and you're already an hour behind.

I hope I have a kid like Ian Edwards.

A little late, but...

pics?

Now I'm an hour and 40 minutes behind with the scheduled hour run later today. I only ran for 20 minutes this morning becuase its 20 degress!! and the weather says it feels like 9-13 degress.

I just hope the cold goes away fast and everything will be okay.

In case that was confusing... 8hours 40 mins left with 3 and a half days left.

u r a retard

ian edwards wrote:

Now I'm an hour and 40 minutes behind with the scheduled hour run later today. I only ran for 20 minutes this morning becuase its 20 degress!! and the weather says it feels like 9-13 degress.

I just hope the cold goes away fast and everything will be okay.

Wow. 20 degrees so it's too cold to run your scheduled hour? Try running up north, where there are 27 inches of snow on the ground, the temperature hasn't risen above freezing since the 27th of December and the secondary roads haven't been snow free during that same span.

So, what pace are you going at?

I'm going to assume 7 to 7:30, which would mean 8 to 8.5 miles per hour, which would require 12-13 hours.

I don't think doing 100 mpw is a great idea without a 2 year buildup, but I applaud your effort nonetheless.

Perhaps trying it when it's not so cold outside would be better though? It's an even bigger injury risk if your muscles aren't warmed up, and being cold is more of an energy zapper than you can realize, and you might end up not running at all next week due to exhaustion.

ian edwards wrote:

Now I'm an hour and 40 minutes behind with the scheduled hour run later today. I only ran for 20 minutes this morning becuase its 20 degress!! and the weather says it feels like 9-13 degress.

I just hope the cold goes away fast and everything will be okay.

Too cold for you huh buddy? When I ran my winter base phase the high was 27 with lows of 2 and I still pumped out 93 miles a week in singles. Why 93? Because that's what my body was feeling. You're idea is so stupid, you Will end up injured and you Still won't shut up. Already you won't run 100 for this week. I can just see the post already where you come back "Well I ran 75 this week because it was so COLD!!!1!!11 but It should be warmer next week so I'll start then." But you never will....

Yeah whoever thought it would be cold in the winter?

So you'll stop at nothing to achieve your goal - unless it's cold. Wow, what a huge amount of dedication. What else? Not gonna run if you stub your toe? What happens if you step in a puddle? Curl up and die, or just cry like a girl?

what a little bitch-the fact that this kid is state champion doesn't say much about the freaking state of Georgia.

The reason I had to stop this morning is becuase I thought it was gonna be 40 degress. So, I dressed like it was gonna be 40 degrees. I didn't know it was 20 until I came inside and looked at weather.com.

Well my weightlifting coach is letting me run during his class sometimes. So I ran an hour during school, so all I have to do is run 40 more minutes today and I'm back on schedule except for the hour I missed.

I plan on making up that hour on Saturday. I'll probably do a 2 hour run around noon and then another hour later on in the day.

I'm gonna get these 14 hours in this week, even if it takes 4 hours in one day.

Oh, and if its 20 degrees again tommorow morning I'm gonna wear my ski mask.

IMPOSTER DAMNED IMPOSTER I will have to register my name now

seriously?

yea you don't have to do that

Gotcha bitches

Duffy, what the hell man?

Ian, you've got the right idea but your approach is destined to fail. A couple of years ago I was hell bent on hitting 100 miles a week. It took me 5 weeks to build up to that level but I found that it was not compatible with my work / life schedule. I first did this in all single runs but found that I wasn't taxing the right systems and wasn't recovering so I modified the schedule. I do at least an hour M,W,F and 1.5 hours on tuesday and thursday with a fartlek work out on tuesday and a tempo run on thursday (15 minute warm up, 1 hour hard, 15 minute cool down). I also do about 35 minutes in the am on these days. saturday can be 2 easy runs and sunday up to 2.5 hours. This should allow you to recover. under your current plan you're cramming which will lead to poor recovery. Recovery is the key! speed, tempo, long run... additional running is for recovery. good luck