How Did You Feel After Running Your FIRST 100 Mile Week?

I don't remember my very first one but I do remember my fourth or fifth. School had started by that point and I was dozing off in class which I never did. I dropped back down to 80 shortly thereafter. I adjusted to it in subsequent seasons.

Did you really just say Kipchogay?

Are you more of a Radisher guy?

I can't remember.

Sham 69 wrote:

Were you sore? Happy? Intelligent? Confused?

100 mile week takes a different breed of human: a superhuman that is unlimited (Eliud Kipchogay).

Did your shins hurt a lot? What about your quads? Did you have to eat a LOT of food? Did you gain lots of muscle? Did you SWEAT a lot? Did you get blisters? Did you CHAFE? Share your stories please!

100 mpw is nothing special. Sure it was neat to have my weekly mileage hit triple digits, but other than that it didn't feel that different from a 90 mile week. A 100 mile week doesn't take a different breed of human. You could maybe make an argument that sustained weeks at high volume takes someone who is highly durable, but other than that there are a surprising number of average runners out there slinging high volume for no good reason.

To humor you and answer each of your questions specifically:

Did your shins hurt a lot?

No, and if I did I would assume I was overtraining.

What about your quads?

No, and if I did I would assume I was overtraining.

Did you have to eat a LOT of food?

Not much more than the "a lot" of food I was eating at 80-90 mpw.

Did you gain lots of muscle?

Running high volume usually causes you to lose muscle, but I noticed essentially no change.

Did you SWEAT a lot?

It was August when I hit it for the first time, so yeah.

Did you get blisters?

No.

Did you CHAFE?

No, vaseline in problem areas before a long, hot run goes a long way.

Don't worship 100 mile weeks for the idea that they're some sort of performance-improving magic. Just train smart and find what works best for you.

Felt fine, did again the week after

All of that^

Felt fine because running 100 miles a week is not hard. People who strive to hit mileage don't know how to train right

Don’t do it sham daddy I did it and it literally chafed my pp straight off.

Went from a 24:82 5k to a 13:63 in literally a week tho so if you are willing to make the sacrifice to become great...

Make sure you do it at sub 7 pace too or you won’t improve.

I had two days to go.

I feel like if I did this I'd be confused and happy.

malmo wrote:

I had two days to go.

Plenty of time to party. Wahaaaayyyyee

Sham 69 wrote:

Were you sore? Happy? Intelligent? Confused?

100 mile week takes a different breed of human: a superhuman that is unlimited (Eliud Kipchogay).

Did your shins hurt a lot? What about your quads? Did you have to eat a LOT of food? Did you gain lots of muscle? Did you SWEAT a lot? Did you get blisters? Did you CHAFE? Share your stories please!

Not everyone has the privilege of safe access to running trails and roads... perhaps you superhumans could render some charity in this regard once in your lifetimes and generations

Well i was running 90mpw all summer and then my first week of XC i missed calculated and hit 100 by accident. Felt the same to me. But early in the summer the first month at 90mpw i felt pretty tired until my body fully adjusted.

H._Emer_Troy wrote:

Sham 69 wrote:

Were you sore? Happy? Intelligent? Confused?

100 mile week takes a different breed of human: a superhuman that is unlimited (Eliud Kipchogay).

Did your shins hurt a lot? What about your quads? Did you have to eat a LOT of food? Did you gain lots of muscle? Did you SWEAT a lot? Did you get blisters? Did you CHAFE? Share your stories please!

Not everyone has the privilege of safe access to running trails and roads... perhaps you superhumans could render some charity in this regard once in your lifetimes and generations

Concrete is the fastest surface. You don't have to get injured if you build your mileage carefully over several years.

Like I'd screwed up my marathon prep (I had).

Now regularly running 120 mile weeks and don't get what the big deal is with 100. Easy to fit in really.

Count me as one of the losers who doesn’t know how to train. I have never run 100 miles in a week, but I planned to once with a pretty severe increase in volume. I ran 96 through the first 6 days, but on day 7 I had to work both of my kitchen jobs and found that my will to complete my goal was suddenly nonexistent—I felt strangely unbothered by this after gunning for the mark all week. The Iowa summer heat & humidity probably made it tougher, but then again I’ve never done it in the more temperate months either.

I did it because I had a lot of time and a longer build-up from the quarantine. I felt a little tired in the middle week as I was under-eating slightly. But I fixed that up and felt pretty good by the end. Finished the last run at the beach on a really hot day, so I felt pretty sweaty. Other than that It just felt sort of cool to say "I ran 100 miles in a week in high school" even if It was one time

I was surprised at how little a deal it felt like. I ran 110 miles that week, with a previous high of 89. Difference in feeling between those two weeks was negligible. I think the "100" number has too much mystique for how arbitrary and meaningless it is.