150+MPW

RunAlexRun wrote:

TrailRunnerGary wrote:

Never really did such high mileage myself, but had very long stretches of 90-110 when i ran 2:22. My junior year of college (App State) I ran weeks of 133 and 142 miles over Christmas break while working 40 hours per week. When I got back to school I PRed in the indoor two-mile by five seconds. Bill Rodgers touches in his training some when I interviewed him at

http://www.garycohenrunning.com/Interviews/Rodgers.aspx

He did go into detail about each of his four Boston and NYC victories

I know this is completely off topic, but how is it running in the App State area? (I'm going to a camp there in July)

amazing

How's the weather there? I live in Miami so I'm wondering if I should take some winter running clothes and such.

malmo wrote:

It was no different than in high school getting up at 5:30 to run 8 miles. The alarm goes off, you get up and run.

I wouldn't know. I never got up at 5:30 am to run 8 miles in high school and still managed the sea level equivalent (using the NCAA standard, which I think is conservative based on what I've witnessed) of 9:19 for the 3.2k off of nary a summer base, though I did manage 55 miles per week through the winter, mostly in one run. But, yes, I probably could've done better had the Internet and the Summer of Malmo existed in the mid-80s. Let that be a lesson to you kiddos. But I do not see the point in running 177 miles, ever, unless you want to want the risk/reward ratio to go parabolic.

I had a stretch from June through October of 90 - 110 mile weeks before running 2:22 at age 22 in my first serious attempt at the marathon. This was after a track season where I ran 14:46 and 30:28 - solid times, but nothing exceptional. One time when I was a newly minted masters runner I had three weeks where I averaged about 115 miles per week, but I was working 40 hours per week, married with two kids, so it was hard to do this for a lengthy period of time. The following week I did a huge taper and ran a very fast (for me at the time) 10k. When I did higher mileage than usual I still ran a long run and two intense days (usually on the track) each week.