Curious to see people's thoughts on this age-old debate. For the purposes of this excercise, I will define "high mileage" as the threshold where I'd respect someone for putting in this amount, regardless of speed, and I'd consider it a significant part of their lives.
Middle School: 20+mpw
High School: 65+mpw
College: 80+mpw
Masters (between 25-40): 70+mpw
Masters (50 and older): 45+ mpw
Thoughts? Opinions? Discus:
Anything over 60 is 'high mileage' for me.
Consistently doing over 30 is good, and gets my ' yeah nice 'nod.
Banner. wrote:
Anything over 60 is 'high mileage' for me.
Hadn't thought about it but I think same, over 60 miles is categorized as 'high mileage' in my head.
IDK. Probably 5 mpw. It's all relative.
I'll respect anyone putting in over 25 mpw, but "high mileage" starts at 90. Sorry, I don't make the rules. Well, actually, I do.
Any amount more than I run is high mileage, any amount less than I run is low mileage
The World's Foremost Expert on All Matters wrote:
I'll respect anyone putting in over 25 mpw, but "high mileage" starts at 90. Sorry, I don't make the rules. Well, actually, I do.
I like that kind of attitude.
For adult runners I would say high mileage starts around 100.
But there is also a huge difference if you go to 120 once or twice in your marathon prep or if you run 100 all year long.
Over 50.
I say 11 hrs/week (or 80 miles).
I would have said 70+ until I read this post. Now, since I'm 54 and average just under 50 MPW, I'll go with the Masters 45+ definition. Hey, I'm high mileage!
I think it varies between what you are training for.
50 mpw may be high mileage for a speed based 800m runner, but might not be enough miles to run a half decent marathon.
120 mpw is high mileage for a marathon, but if you do that training for the 800m I wouldn’t call you high mileage, I’d call you stupid.
CopperRunner wrote:
I think it varies between what you are training for.
50 mpw may be high mileage for a speed based 800m runner, but might not be enough miles to run a half decent marathon.
120 mpw is high mileage for a marathon, but if you do that training for the 800m I wouldn’t call you high mileage, I’d call you stupid.
So Peter Snell was stupid? He was more successful than all those modern day low mileage runners.
Over 50mpw
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Lampost wrote:
Masters (between 25-40): 70+mpw
Masters (50 and older): 45+ mpw
What about masters 40-50?
Maybe stupid is too harsh a word but mislead? Yes.
I recognize spikes and racing surface has evolved but mid 1:44 puts him at “world class but not world beater” today.
People like rudisha or brazier or symmonds who all ran at or under 50 mpw (I recognize sometimes symmonds would hit 60-70 a couple times during base) would have all destroyed him in their prime.
If they all decided to run 100+ mpw I don’t think they’d improve. I think they’d stagnate or get worse.
I’m not dissing on snells legacy, but training has evolved and we are finding massive mileage like that just simply doesn’t help much in the 800/1500.
Over 70. 10 miles a day is respectably high. (For high school seniors and up).
Don't agree how 'a significant part of their lives' differs with ages but anyway.
70mpw. If your running 10miles a day.
Nice number. High mileage. Easy.
Lampost wrote:
Curious to see people's thoughts on this age-old debate. For the purposes of this excercise, I will define "high mileage" as the threshold where I'd respect someone for putting in this amount, regardless of speed, and I'd consider it a significant part of their lives.
Middle School: 20+mpw
High School: 65+mpw
College: 80+mpw
Masters (between 25-40): 70+mpw
Masters (50 and older): 45+ mpw
Thoughts? Opinions? Discus:
I think it depends on what you're training for. For example an 800 runner running 70 miles per week is high mileage for 800 but that wouldn't be high for a 10k guy.
Anyway, I'd say if you're 70+ in high school that's high, if you go above 100 during college you're pretty high, and if you're running 120 or higher for marathon you're high mileage.
If you're only 50-60 in high school for a 3200 and cross country guy, not that high. If you're 80-90 in college as a 5k/10k, that's not that high. If you're only running 100-110 for a marathon buildup, that's not that high.
America's fury wrote:
Lampost wrote:
Masters (between 25-40): 70+mpw
Masters (50 and older): 45+ mpw
What about masters 40-50?
They're a myth. No one is allowed to run at that age.
I'd probably say that if you're being consistent with the chart 55-60 would be high mileage for masters 40-50.
The World's Foremost Expert on All Matters wrote:
I'll respect anyone putting in over 25 mpw, but "high mileage" starts at 90. Sorry, I don't make the rules. Well, actually, I do.
You don't make the rules, I do!
High mileage begins at 105, because that's the moment that you have to concentrate to accomplish your week.
For marathoners high mileage begins at 120. Anything less is the regular service.
For the aggregation of all distances put together the Universal Threshold of High Mileage is 115.