The title basically says it all. I've always been curious to see how running actually effects my health, so decided to quantify it. 31 different metrics that I tracked over a two week period of running 10 miles every day compared with a two week base period I did prior. Some of the results were wild. Like gaining weight even though I was in calorie deficit a lot of the days??
Super interesting experience! Was fully expected for it to be a painful slog as I didn't have much of a base (dumb I know), but was very surprised when my body started adjusting to the mileage. The 14th and final day was my fastest at 8.41/mile (5.23/km). I'm not a very serious runner so was quite happy with this pace (though I'm thinking of getting more serious now that I know my body can handle it).
Anyways, if you're interested at taking a look here's a link to all the data -> http://laymanstudy.com/10-miles-a-day/.
And here's a video I made about the experience -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQxLQDHxZXA&t=361s&ab_channel=LaymanStudy.
Please let me know if you have any feedback! Or similar experiences with some of the metrics. And maybe advice going forward as I'm thinking of doing a full marathon next year.
I ran 10 miles (16km) a day for 2 weeks with little base - for science and curiosity
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seems like you're really trying too hard to get a "result" from this 2 week period.
seems like you're trying to draw correlations without much evidence
just comes across as weird. you're rating your skin quality and anxiety every day? -
nice bro, that is very cool
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Just curious is all. Didn't notice trends with all of the metrics, which is why I only highlighted a few. I was mostly interested in heart stuff and some body metrics. Anxiety and skin was relatively unaffected.
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Thanks! I appreciate that
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2 weeks seems a little short. 3-6 mos might be interesting.
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Sub-8 Mile wrote:
2 weeks seems a little short. 3-6 mos might be interesting.
Agree, 12 weeks of base and then a taper would give much better results and a better reference point too. Basically the method used would skew towards showing the response to fatigue. To get an actual conclusion so you could reference from before training to after training, you would need to have a longer term trial so variables are lessened and then a full taper for the super-compensation cycle to fully play out and get solid baseline results. I'd imagine you would see much different results then. -
Interesting, but I think you are showing the physiological response to overtraining, not exercising
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That's not 'overtraining', not even close. He just fatigued himself. No conclusions can be drawn other than he could do 70 miles a week for two weeks. Laughable in terms of an the conclusions he's trying to draw.
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Please expand on the weight gain and calorie deficit. How did you track those? You mention a calorie deficit some days but don’t note if you had a calorie surplus the other days. Did you or were you consistently in a deficit per your tracking?
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Long time ago I ran 20 km/day the whole November month.
Here's what I experienced from what I remember.
First days were cool. At the end of the first week it became to suck.
After the second week I became acquainted with the volume.
In the last two weeks my pace increased from one day to another.
When I finished the month I was adapted to this volume, but my mind was tired of boredom and monotony and probably I wouldn't be able to keep it like that for too long.
Right after that I began running in heavy military boots, in mud, snow, water and jumping over fallen trees.
This was fantastic. On one hand I was suffering due to the difficulty of the exercise, on the other hand I was excited about how full of adrenaline is this kind of training.
I did this for two weeks, around 10km/day.
In the spring I realized that I made a huge progress, just from how easy was to run a 15 km tempo.
Then I broke my left arm and everything was turned into dust. -
Joe Jackson wrote:
Please expand on the weight gain and calorie deficit. How did you track those? You mention a calorie deficit some days but don’t note if you had a calorie surplus the other days. Did you or were you consistently in a deficit per your tracking?
Yes I am also interested about this part. -
reed wrote:
just comes across as weird. you're rating your skin quality and anxiety every day?
As a medical doctor, I disagree that anxiety is a "weird" thing to track in a short-term exercise study.
Mood is one of the first things that I would expect to be affected by new daily exercise. -
I agree that 2 weeks is a little short to get any sort of meaningful data out of
maybe do 1 hour a day for a few months would be interesting. Honestly I may end up doing something similar to this over the month of december or january -
We get it - it seems you're trying to get views on your channel with minimal effort. 2 weeks is nothing, as almost every poster here knows.
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This is sad and pathetic. 70 mpw is stuff that a 6 grader could run.
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lolz internet wrote:
We get it - it seems you're trying to get views on your channel with minimal effort. 2 weeks is nothing, as almost every poster here knows.
The only person who nailed it.
I ran everyday for 2 weeks for views.
I’m currently on average 11.2 miles a day for the year, btw. -
I'd be very careful about assuming you can keep this sort of mileage up if you haven't ran it before. Especially considering the fact you're logging 10 min miles, that's like 9+ hours of running, as much as many pros.
Other than that, I'd just suggest not writing like a 90s teenager.... there is zero reason to be using "donezo" or "cool beans" unironically in 2020 -
reed wrote:
seems like you're really trying too hard to get a "result" from this 2 week period.
seems like you're trying to draw correlations without much evidence
just comes across as weird. you're rating your skin quality and anxiety every day?
@reed
your strava run titles seem like you're trying way too hard, but we don't say anything.
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round and round wrote:
reed wrote:
seems like you're really trying too hard to get a "result" from this 2 week period.
seems like you're trying to draw correlations without much evidence
just comes across as weird. you're rating your skin quality and anxiety every day?
@reed
your strava run titles seem like you're trying way too hard, but we don't say anything.
relax.
What's that got to do with anything? He and the rest of this thread are right, you can't get any significant insights from only two weeks of this.
