WorkingHarder wrote:
Seriously. I don’t think I’ve ever come across someone running that sort of mileage and those sort of times. OP met one person that claimed to run 80 a week (when only running 20) and ran with it.
I ran 20:03 on a base of 50-70 miles a week, I also ran 4:22 indoors, xc was actually held back by a non track issue but it’s still pretty funny
PR’d in tempo workouts and such
Longtime runner wrote:
I never understood that either.
Quite a lot of people are obsessed with weekly mileage. Most runners should not run 50 miles per week. They are just too slow for that and yet a lot of runners do 60, 80 or even 100 mpw because it sounds good, not because it makes sense.
"should"....what does that mean? Who are you to say what another runner "should" do? What if they want to run that much? Ever considered that?
I personally have never heard of a single person who can run 80 mile weeks and can't break 20 for a 5K. Obviously I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just ridiculously rare to the point that it doesn't even make any sense. To the obvious straw man, 11+ miles per day would not be "fun" for someone who can't break 20. Weird post!
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toast wrote:
I personally have never heard of a single person who can run 80 mile weeks and can't break 20 for a 5K. Obviously I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just ridiculously rare to the point that it doesn't even make any sense. To the obvious straw man, 11+ miles per day would not be "fun" for someone who can't break 20. Weird post!
That's because you're assuming young male. Think about female of 55 years, that's about 87% age graded, almost world class. I guess there is some fun in consistently getting age group podiums even if it's not sub-20 :)
toast wrote:
I personally have never heard of a single person who can run 80 mile weeks and can't break 20 for a 5K. Obviously I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just ridiculously rare to the point that it doesn't even make any sense. To the obvious straw man, 11+ miles per day would not be "fun" for someone who can't break 20. Weird post!
Go on Strava. Many groups are full of people slogging insane amount of 9+ minute miles to be #1 on the weekly leaderboards. Their 5k PR is often not under 20 minutes. It's how this special type of people enjoy themselves, just as most here enjoy setting PR's and getting faster and faster.