ULTRA RUNNER experimenting with 220 miles per week

wtaf seriously wrote:

Do you people have jobs? Who has time to run 200 miles a week?

Trolls.

In a Transcon race or a multiday race you make time for this. It's possible even with a job.

Does it makes sense for training? Absolutely not. Maybe some 200 mile weeks are beneficial for some. But the returns are diminishing fast on anything beyond 100 miles per week.

Kyle_ wrote:

Tony Krupicka was a beast back in the days...this week was part of his training for Western States.

Total: 205 miles (29:06)

I was a huge fan of Anton. In my opinion the most gifted trailrunner of his time. But he overtrained himself constantly, had no idea how to structure his race season and therefor was always injured when it mattered. For example he had a Hardrock 100 ticket but didn't make it to the start line. He is always my prime example for overtraining.

Markus, I’m looking at your record, it says you got within 1% of your 2000 PRs in 2010 when you were TEN years older, an age-graded improvement which is common, although many eventually achieve outright PRs, especially at the longer distances. Am I reading it right? Discuss.

Despite my reputation as a terrible race director (with most of my runners), one still sees huge successes after these transcons, including my own results.

My own faults aside, I will always make the case that, within reason of course, stamina is an inborn characteristic of humans.

Under modern, near-perfect conditions, one needs at least 40 miles a day to even “bring out” the “Inner Nomad”.

For a minimum of three weeks. In transcons it even has a name: the “Thousand-Mile Rule”.

is there still people running this kind of mileage? it looks like stuff from the past

Travis_99 wrote:

is there still people running this kind of mileage? it looks like stuff from the past

I don't think he ran any 200+ mile weeks, but cam levins has ran a 190 mile week.

Transcons are still held, but we can only do long-term analyses after years have passed.

Here is a link to what I was talking about before, it was Gene Dyke, I do not find anything about 300 miles, maybe I read that somewhere else, but he sure did a 200 mile ultra as a tuneup :-)

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8756044

are we talking about 200 miles of easy runs or what?

Small estimate. I’ve done 2 weeks of 400 miles.